Coming Home From the World is a collection of poems by Australian poet Peter Boyle, published by Five Islands Press in 1994.
The collection contains 17 poems from a variety of the author's other poetry collections.
It was the winner of the 1995 NSW Premier's Prize for Poetry.
Contents
"From Instructions Given to the Royal Examiners in the State of Chi" "Never Again" "On Reading Nadezhda Mandelstam's Memoirs" "For a Beautiful Polish Lady" "Separation" "Woman in a Dark Overcoat Hunched in a Seat" "Midwinter Swimming" "Moving House" "Four Variations on a Text of St John" "A Domestic Helper Returns for Christmas in the Province" "The Death of Franco" "When Eagles Pause to Talk with Your Sleeping Body" "Ode to Allen Ginsberg" "Robert Frost at Eighty" "The Emperor Montezuma Returns to Witness the Enactment of His Last Days in an Opera Composed by Antonio Vivaldi and Performed in the Theatre of St Angelo, Venice, 1733" "1892" "The Joys of Mathematics"
See also 1994 in Australian literature
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