Coming Home From the World
| Author | Peter Boyle |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Poetry collection |
| Publisher | Five Islands Press |
| Publication date | 1994 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 32 pp |
| Awards | 1995 NSW Premier's Prize for Poetry, winner |
| ISBN | 1875604243 |
Coming Home From the World is a collection of poems by Australian poet Peter Boyle, published by Five Islands Press in 1994.[1]
The collection contains 17 poems from a variety of the author's other poetry collections.[2]
It was the winner of the 1995 NSW Premier's Prize for Poetry.[3]
Contents
- "From Instructions Given to the Royal Examiners in the State of Chi"
- "Never Again"
- "On Reading Nadezhda Mandelstam's Memoirs"
- "For a Beautiful Polish Lady"
- "Separation"
- "Woman in a Dark Overcoat Hunched in a Seat"
- "Midwinter Swimming"
- "Moving House"
- "Four Variations on a Text of St John"
- "A Domestic Helper Returns for Christmas in the Province"
- "The Death of Franco"
- "When Eagles Pause to Talk with Your Sleeping Body"
- "Ode to Allen Ginsberg"
- "Robert Frost at Eighty"
- "The Emperor Montezuma Returns to Witness the Enactment of His Last Days in an Opera Composed by Antonio Vivaldi and Performed in the Theatre of St Angelo, Venice, 1733"
- "1892"
- "The Joys of Mathematics"
See also
References
- ↑ "Coming Home From the World by Peter Boyle". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
- ↑ "Austlit — Coming Home From the World by Peter Boyle". Austlit. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
- ↑ "Winners of the Premier's 1995 literary awards". The Sydney Morning Herald, 16 September 1995, p11. ProQuest 2527785639. Retrieved 15 June 2026.
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