Have Been and Are (2016) is a collection of poetry by the Australian writer Brook Emery."Have been and are / Brook Emery", TROVE: Books & Libraries.
Contents The collection contains 39 poems, some of which had been previously published. As Jenny Henty notes in her (2017) review, "the title of each poem (except the last) is a quotation from a novelist, poet, scientist, philosopher or composer".Henty, Jenny (2017), "Have Been and Are by Brook Emery", Plumwood Mountain Journal, October 2017.
"And the word 'environment' " "Brain doesn't improvise" "We are lashed to our body" "The poet is a centipede" "Body is but a striving" "At the end of the mind" "To get the better of words" "The poem must" "The rain falls down" "The most important experience of being" "I'm not sure" "World without hope" "I, too, find the flower beautiful" "No more than" "To make the universe" "We behold all things" "Everything waste" "Only keep still, wait, and hear" "Echo, repetition, statement" "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan" "A steady delete" "The right time to write" "The situation is hopeless" "The brown current" "A preposterous hodgepodge" "What were they then" "He was describing, " "The lightness, the non-mass of it" "There on the shore" "But it would be loathsome stiff" "Drive, he sd" "I should be rolling down the skyway" "If you write deplorable twaddle" "You want ghosts" "What is spoken is never" "A spring day like this" "Endless forms most beautiful and wonderful" "Broken / Beautiful"
Critical reception The collection has been reviewed.Duwell, Martin (2017), "Brook Emery's Have Been and Are", Cordite Poetry Review, Vol.80, May 2017.Fischer, Luke (2017), "Luke Fischer’s Launch of have been and are by Brook Emery (From the launch speech given at the Friend in Hand Hotel in Glebe on Saturday 10 September, 2016)", Mascara Literary Review, No.20, April 2017.
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See also 2016 in Australian literature 2016 in poetry
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References Darwin, Charles (1859), On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, London: John Murray. Joyce, James (1922), Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company. External links