{{Short description|2007 poetry collection by Brook Emery}} {{Infobox book | italic title = force | name = Uncommon Light | image = | image_size = | border = | alt = | caption = | author = Brook Emery | audio_read_by = | title_orig = | orig_lang_code = | title_working = | translator = | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = Australia | language = | series = | release_number = | subject = | genre = Poetry collection | set_in = | publisher = Five Islands Press | pub_date = 2007 | english_pub_date = | published = | media_type = Print | pages = 72pp. | awards = | isbn = 978-0-7340-3762-6 | isbn_note = | oclc = | dewey = A821.4 | congress = | preceded_by = At a Slight Angle | followed_by = Collusion | native_wikisource = | wikisource = | notes = | exclude_cover = | website = | module = }}

'''''Uncommon Light''''' (2007) is a collection of poetry by the Australian writer Brook Emery.<ref>[https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3990866 "Uncommon light : poems / Brook Emery", ''National Library of Australia''.]</ref><ref>[https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMQVdEAJrA "Uncommon light (sound recording) / Brook Emery", ''State Library of New South Wales''.]</ref>

==Contents== The collection contains 32 poems. {{refbegin|30em}} * "Very Like a Whale" * "Spring" * "Morning: Thinking of You" * "Finches Perhaps" * "Monster"<!-- This is the first of four entirely separate and unconnected poems within this collection that have the same title --> * "Moon" * "Sunday: '(Everything Can Be) Transformed,&nbsp;"<!-- The title of this poem (a) ends with a comma, and (b) does not end with a closing single quote, and must be kept that way --> * "That Beat Against the Cage" * "'Am I Really the Person Who Bears My Name?'" ** "1. This Confusion" ** "2. The Mystery of It" ** "3. That Much a Part" ** "4. Wanting More" ** "5. Just Where He Is" * "Winter Rain" * "Nevertheless Also There" * "Making a Presence" * "Monster"<!-- This is the second of four entirely separate and unconnected poems within this collection that have the same title --> * "Tourism: What the I Sees" * "This Disenchanted World" * "Uncommon Light" * "Thirty-Six Views of Bondi Beach" * "Switch" * "Monster"<!-- This is the third of four entirely separate and unconnected poems within this collection that have the same title --> * "Landscape" * "Story" * "Narcissus: Self-Portrait with Sea" * "Still Life with Sun and Figs" * "Half-Glimpsed Through Water" * "Feeding Birds" * "Against Immortality" * "Monster"<!-- This is the fourth of four entirely separate and unconnected poems within this collection that have the same title --> * "Spring is Still Spring (Summer) " {{refend}}

==Awards and nominations== * Short-listed — ''Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry'' (New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards) (2008).

==Critical reception== The collection has been reviewed.<ref>[https://walleahpress.com.au/Emery-rev.html Wessman, Ralph (n.d.), "Recent writing: Brook Emery's 'Uncommon Light' ", ''Walleah Press''.]</ref><ref>Campbell, Elizabeth (2008/2009), [https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2008/december-2008-january-2009-no-307/291-december-2008-january-2009-no-307/10958-elizabeth-campbell-reviews-uncommon-light-by-brook-emery "Uncommon Thought", ''Australian Book Review'' No.307, December 2008-January 2009.]</ref>

==See also== * 2007 in Australian literature * 2007 in poetry

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==References== * ''Uncommon Light'' (a compact disc sound recording of 16 of the collection's 32 poems), ''River Road Poetry Series, No.2'', Spit Junction, NSW: River Road Press. {{isbn|978-0-9804-1481-3}}

==External links== {{sister project links|collapsible=true|wikt=no|c=no|n=no|q=no|s=no|b=no|v=no|d=Q136720606}} * {{AustLit | C639743 }}

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