Heaven, in a way

by Rodney Hall

"Heaven, in a Way"
"Roadside Image"
"Giving Tongue"
"Transubstantiation"
"Deathbed"
"Country House"
"In a Bookshop"
"Cut-Out"
"On Trying to Remember Someone"
"Husband and Wife with Newspaper"
"Domesticity"
"Not Complaining"
"Drugged"
"More Poems of England" ("Young Mother," "The Humanist," "The Stranger Between")
"Two Byzantine Pieces" ("St. George," "Her Hand")
"The Diver"
"Concerning a Critic"
"Inmates"
"Mrs. Macintosh"
"The One Flower"
"The Eastern Empress, Lost without Trace 1930"
"A Question of Manners"
"A Financier's Obituary"
"A Cruise for the Prosecution"
"The Public Turns to Its Hero"
"Protest against Conscription"
"The Imperial Style"
"The Tribe of Whatever"
"Fantasy on Verses from I Kings 18"
"Personal Tour"
"The Mother"
"Romulus and Remus" ("Premonition," "Birth," "Growth," "Release," "Repose," "Conquest," "Solution").

61 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1970

About the author

Born in Solihull, Warwickshire, England, Hall came to Australia as a child after World War II and studied at the University of Queensland. Between 1967 and 1978 he was the Poetry Editor of The Australian. After a period living in Shanghai in the 1980s, Hall returned to Australia, and took up residence in Victoria.

Hall has twice won the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, and has received seven nominations for the prestigious Miles Franklin Award, for which he has twice won ("Just Relations" in 1982 and "The Grisly Wife" in 1994).

Reviews

[zara · Rating 4 out of 5]

surprisingly i really enjoyed this! not bad for deciding to give this random find a chance.