Vigorous Vernacular

By Kevin Densley

Kevin Densley’s poetry has been published in various Australian and UK magazines over the past fifteen years, including Quadrant, The Adelaide Review, LiNQ, Muse, New England Review, Vernacular, Mattoid, Redoubt, Verandah, Tamba, Space, Other Poetry (UK), The Journal (UK), Cadenza (UK), Monkey Kettle (UK

• Language: English
• Publisher: Debbie Lee
• Release date: Sep 30, 2018
• ISBN: 9781760416188

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Vigorous Vernacular

Vigorous Vernacular

Kevin Densley

Ginninderra Press

Vigorous Vernacular

ISBN 978 1 76041 618 8

Copyright © text Kevin Densley 2008

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First published by Picaro Press 2008

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This edition published 2018 by

Picaro Press – an imprint of

Ginninderra Press

PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide 5015 Australia

www.ginninderrapress.com.au

Contents

Vigorous Vernacular

Acknowledgements

to Steve, Fiona and Kay

Vigorous Vernacular

The Car Chase in Films from Six Different Countries

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In America, it’s Steve McQueen

Ford Mustang crash bang Bullitt

streets of San Francisco stuff;

Germany, there’s a focus

upon needles on dashboard gauges

rising dangerously into the red;

France, it’s a character study:

the wily, corrupt old cop

emotionally torturing

his wet behind the ears sidekick

while