Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Part 1; Several Ways to Fall Out of the Sky; Emergence; The Memory Wire; Stable Boys; On Teaching My Daughter to Ride a Horse; Why, When We Fall Off Things, We Fall Down; Take-Off; The Traffic of Angels; Signs of Life; Sadness; Wheelbarrow; Longevity; The Stepfather Project; Kairos, or The Right Time; Habits Formed by Eternity; Part 2; Girls and Horses in the Fire; South in the World: Thinking about Black Saturday from the Swiss Alps; This Newfound Note; Releasing the Frog; Trout Farm; Limping into Jerusalem; Photographs of Jews
Anne Frank's Sister Falls from Her BunkOld Nazis; Why Old People Talk about Their Operations; The Concept of Necessity in Marx and Angels; Thylacine; Calling Up the Dead; Some Adjustments to the Original Idea; Part 3; All Things; Night Feeding; The Virgin Mary Gets Postnatal Depression; Ellipsis; Amphibian; Tall Ships; Silver City; The God You Don't Believe In; Those for Whom the Metaphors Are Invented; In My Mother's Kitchen; Orbit; Exodus; Walking the Black Dog; Vanishing Point; Part 4; The Way We Do In Sex; Triage; Morning Ride; Who Is To Say; Holiday Season
Thoughts between Christmas and New Year(i) Forgetting to buy the nets; (ii) Material in excess of 2 cubic metres; (iii) But then, that said; Moorings; What to Expect; Waking from Hibernation; First Cigarette; Dragonfly; Part 5; There Are Stones That Sing; Shift Work; (i) Case Notes; (ii) Wild Rabbits; (iii) Talking about Country; (iv) Incident Report; Dutch Tulip Bubble; Spinning on a Dream Thread; Open Plan Office; Virga, or No Rain Falling; The Leaf Sweeper; War Horse; Another Poem about Dogs; Small Deaths; The Interior Ladder; A note on the text; Sources for the epigraphs; Author's note
South in the World is a dialogue between the earthly and the ethereal, reality and enchantment, body and spirit - those southern and northern poles by which we navigate the world. The poems in this collection speak to family, love, and daily living, as well as a world blighted by cataclysm and touched by redemption. Lisa Jacobson is an award-winning poet and fiction writer. Poems in this book have either won or have been shortlisted for major awards: the 2011 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize, the 2013 Montreal International Poetry Prize, and the 2013 Fish International Poetry Prize (U.K.). Her
