Shadow Play

James Norcliffe

Norcliffe professes not to be a confessional poet; nevertheless he freely acknowledges that places and people served as prompts for the poems. New Zealand based, Norcliffe is well-travelled and his poems have international resonance. Placing Shadow...

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Opening Credits

1/21/2023

About the book

1/21/2023

About the poet

1/21/2023

Preface by Bernadette Hall

1/21/2023

Introduction by James Norcliffe

1/21/2023

A PINK DOLPHIN MADE OF GLASS notice

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1. A Pink Dolphin Made of Glass

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2. Hamlet nurses his beer

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3. Tenniel draws Alice

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4. ATM

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5. The Knowledge of the Case Manager

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6. Vindaloo

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7. trapeze

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8. a pork pie from Montpelier Retreat

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LOST IN NINEVEH notice

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9. Lost in Nineveh

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10. Missing the Whirling Dervishes

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11. The Empress Cixi among the lotuses

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12. safe passage

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13. after the Foxhead

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14. at Fossil Gorge

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15. caldera

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16. Ichthyosaurus

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17. along the groynes

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18. cervena

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19. when the heart attack came

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20. shadow play

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21. endgame

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SLEEPING THE SLEEP OF THE DEAD notice

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22. Sleeping the sleep of the dead

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23. kissing Lord Kitchener

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24. my alien vegetable

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25. nor'west arch

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26. the frog in the orchid

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27. tomentum

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28. the fat publican

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29. Lygon Street

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30. the man who burnt his hat

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31. the creature

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32. the mapmaker's mistake

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33. yet another poem about a giraffe

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THE COLOUR OF TENDERNESS notice

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34. the colour of tenderness

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35. Scaffolding

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36. Errol Flynn at Battery Point

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37. By the lake

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38. Forgiveness at Ramadan's End

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39. the bookman in love

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40. the bookman after love

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41. house

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42. orthography

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43. Towards the mountain

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44. I have sent a package to summer

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Ending Credits

1/21/2023