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Laurie Duggan

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Blue Hills 44

So much of a city
is light on stonework, woodwork;
demolition turns us into archaeologists
using the maps;
memory,
a particular daub of colour
there, to the right,
of that mountain down the street.

August 1993

Laurie Duggan

(Australia, 1949)

Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1949 and now lives in England. He has published numerous books of poems, the most recent being The Passenger, (UQP, 2006), Let’s Get Lost (with Pam Brown and Ken Bolton, Sydney, Vagabond, 2005), Compared to What: Selected Poems 1971-2003, (Exeter, Shearsman, 2005), and Mangroves (UQP, 2003). Shearsman have also republished his 1987 documentary p...

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Blue Hills 44

So much of a city
is light on stonework, woodwork;
demolition turns us into archaeologists
using the maps;
memory,
a particular daub of colour
there, to the right,
of that mountain down the street.

From: New & Selected Poems 1971-1992

August 1993