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| Title By Year | 1997 (?). VIRUS |
| First Line | Beyond the vicious surf, the scrub foreshore |
| Creators | Outram, Richard Daley, 1930-2005
Howard, Barbara, 1926-2002
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| Publisher | [Gauntlet Press] |
| Place of Publication | [Toronto] |
| Date | [1997?] |
| Description | One sheet of white paper, 22 x 28 cm. Title of poem is printed in upper case Lithos, in violet. Immediately above the title is an ornament made up of discontinuous diagonal lines describing the outline of a saltire, in rose. Poem is printed in black. Below is: 'RICHARD OUTRAM', in violet. Immediately beneath is a smaller version of the saltire ornament, in rose. |
| Size of Original | 1 sheet ; 22 x 28 cm. |
| Local Call Number | PS 8579 U92 V56 1997 RARE |
| Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Broadside |
| Format | Image/jpeg |
| Identifier | GP-0082 |
| Collection | Gauntlet Press of Richard Outram and Barbara Howard |
| Repository | Memorial University of Newfoundland. Libraries |
| Language | Eng |
| Source | Print original in the Rare Books Collection, Memorial University of Newfoundland Libraries. |
| Transcript | Beyond the vicious surf, the scrub foreshore, bruised foothills are aligned, then realigned: and sailors swear assuredly thereby that mountains are removed. This northern coast seems uninhabited. No flickered lights by night, no sudden tufts of smoke by day, to disconcert the heart returned, aghast, from broken promises - those shimmered sands, those ripened islands smouldering. That fade like shame below the seared horizon line. Like recollection. Inland here, they say, replenishing the soul sweet rivers rise… |
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