Night Reversing

Night Reversing
AuthorMorgan Yasbincek
LanguageEnglish
GenrePoetry collection
PublisherFremantle Press
Publication date
1996
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages66 pp
ISBN1863681663

Night Reversing is a 1996 collection of poetry by the Australian writer Morgan Yasbincek, published by Fremantle Press.[1]

The collection consists of 41 poems, with the bulk of them being published for the first time here.[2]

Contents

  • "A Hundred Years of Sleeping"
  • "Sleeping"
  • "See Me"
  • "Tomb"
  • "White Owl"
  • "Selvedge : I : Hiding Something"
  • "Selvedge : II : Orientation"
  • "Selvedge : III : Ghost of a Train Station"
  • "Selvedge : IV : It Moves Glass on Glass"
  • "Body Language"
  • "Morning"
  • "Death of the Angel"
  • "If I Could Pour Wine for You"
  • "Hole in the Wall"
  • "Laundromat"
  • "Jack"
  • "Veil"
  • "Father/Daughter"
  • "She is Teaching"
  • "Other Women/Other Messages"
  • "?"
  • "After Language"
  • "Sole Custody"
  • "Mercury"
  • "The Last of It"
  • "Face"
  • "Night Fever"
  • "Amphibia"
  • "Cows and Bulls"
  • "Stepfathers"
  • "Shame"
  • "Crocodiles"
  • "losing Open"
  • "A Survival Thing"
  • "Onymous"
  • "Psych Rats"
  • "Izzie's Dog"
  • "Stories"
  • "Rottnest Resort"
  • "January"
  • "Canada Poems"

Critical reception

Reviewing the collection for Australian Book Review Lauren Williams noted the "shadowy partialness of many of Yasbincek’s poems." She went on to indicate that "there are two styles at work; one which hints and leaves things unresolved, the other which (more satisfyingly) has focus and resolution", which was enough "to indicate a poet of skill and heart."[3]

Awards

Notes

  • Epigraph: 'For the necessity of reading and being read is a dream from which we cannot awaken.' - Barbara Johnson

See also

References

  1. ^ "Night Reversing by Morgan Yasbincek". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 February 2026.
  2. ^ "Austlit — Night Reversing by Morgan Yasbincek". Austlit. Retrieved 5 February 2026.
  3. ^ ""Poetry Shorts"". Australian Book Review, November 1997. Retrieved 5 February 2026.
  4. ^ "Austlit — Anne Elder Award 1995-97". Austlit. Retrieved 5 February 2026.
  5. ^ ""Mary Gilmore Award"". ASAL. Retrieved 5 February 2026.
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