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1 online resource (163 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Prologue. This is how it is for all of us -- On the edge. In the dark -- Who are you? -- Yesterday, taking the long way home -- Reading between the streets -- The unnamed speaks (The baby) -- Maintaining the mask -- Possessing a mattress -- At Tate Britain last week -- Face in a crowd -- Finding yourself on the other side -- A woman supposedly like me -- Inserting myself into the story (The dopplegänger) -- The mother as narcissist -- Sing me a name? (The baby) -- Floods of one kind or another. Where the heart is -- An approach in the cinema -- Why not show my face? (The baby) -- The day of the flood -- The woman who refuses to leave -- Email advice -- Lurking in non-fiction (The dopplegänger) -- End of the game -- Nibbling the shoreline -- Easy to invade -- Out in the cold (The dopplegänger) -- Selective mutism (The baby) -- Up not down. A proposal -- Trying on the garments of a new life -- A visitor in the garden -- The pattern of memoir -- Stealing time -- Currently under the bridge (The dopplegänger) -- A new woman -- Do you like your new home? (The baby) -- Gone no address -- The absence of a pen -- What's expected? -- Slipping away (The baby) -- Mother failure -- On the brink -- Slipping on ice -- Every cloud a story. The idiosyncrasies of home -- Lost in the air -- Reading the death notices -- Potluck -- Setting up -- A cloud in my net (The boy on the wall) -- Self-defence (The dopplegänger) -- The knock on the door -- How we give ourselves away -- No cameras but a film set -- A home not a wall (The boy on the wall) |
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Slippery surfaces. Time again -- Stupid with love -- The funeral -- Slim pickings (The dopplegänger) -- A posting of you -- Selected fragments -- The inquisitor returns -- Dangers out the window -- Remembering a birth -- After the facts -- How do you know which is right? -- What use are words? (The dopplegänger) -- An impossible greenness -- Following a trail. Witnesses -- Off to the gallows -- Two-dimensional dreaming -- Litter for the day -- Lying in wait -- Not a clue (The dopplegänger) -- A small group -- Semantics at New World -- Turned drug runner -- Back to my place (The boy on the wall) -- Getting to the centre. Stepping out of and into the picture -- Manifesto (The baby) -- Woman in gold -- Dobbing in -- Window shopping -- No love for a nark (The dopplegänger) -- Unfound -- Multiple pseudonyms -- Nest in the park -- Metafiction -- An unwanted dependency (The baby) -- And found. The island -- In the clear -- The lost -- Just between us (The dopplegänger) -- Dealing to -- Ways of processing -- Celebrity for five -- Everyone wants to be wanted -- Last words (The dopplegänger) -- How it is done -- No flowers, please -- Sound harmonies -- Her ideal muse (The baby) -- Making use of the compost. The rubric of the novel -- Noisy women -- That's enough from these invaders -- Yes -- Under the earth -- A pebble -- The land is my mother -- A true poet (The mother) -- Joint authors -- Epilogue. Written on the body (The baby). |
| Summary |
"A mysterious doppelgänger sister, a newborn baby, a boy in a mural, a detective, a former lover, a student stalker... are they real or imagined? Building on Diane Brown's tradition of extended poetic narratives ... this ... wafts between the truly surreal and the 'everyday' absurd"--Back cover. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Motherhood -- Poetry.
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Motherhood. |
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Poetry.
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Electronic books.
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Poetry.
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Motherhood. |
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Print version: Brown, Diane (Diane Edith). Every now and then I have another child. Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, Te Whare Tā o Te Wānanga o Ōtākou, 2020 9781988592404 (OCoLC)1140783199 |
| ISBN |
1990048145 |
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9781990048142 (electronic book) |
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9781990048128 (electronic book) |
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1990048129 (electronic book) |
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9781988592404 |
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1988592402 |
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