Fast talker / David Eggleton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eggleton, David.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

89 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Sirens, drums, message sticks, trumpets, tones and pulses: David Eggleton's new poetry collection, Fast Talker, is a vivid reaction to and colourful communication with the contemporary landscape. Encompassing the tropics and the Antarctic, the New Zealand back-country 'bush paddock' and the global marketplace, Eggleton's poems are full of a strong political and social awareness, a deft comic touch and an always exuberant attention to the potential of language. Some of the poems are Eggleton's well-known 'rants'-part showman patter, part incantation, part prophetic diatribe-that range helter skelter over the Kiwi psyche, the South Pacific, the media, the suburbs of Auckland, big business and the worlds of war and commodity. Other poems, more gentle in tone, quietly focus on distinctive subjects-odes to the city of Dunedin, to the colour white, to a tooth-with vibrant images, lists and inventive language. Eggleton's unique take on the world and its expression in language is freshly displayed in this exciting new collection.

Contents:

1 Sirens

Autumn Blast 2

Snow at 2 a.m. 3

Ode to Magnetic South 4

Auckland Road Ode 6

Summer Catamaran 9

Sea Change at Traffic Lights 10

Titirangi Considered as Wearable Art 11

Water Views 13

2 Drums

The Fencers 15

Above a South Island Sheep Station 16

Melody of the Cold Front 17

Old Railway Line to the Maniototo 18

Night Road 19

Drifting Cone 20

Visions of Suburbia 21

The Bush Paddock 22

Auld Reekie 24

The Scenic Route 25

3 Message Sticks

Vanishing Map 27

Name of the Hurricane 28

A Pacific Islander Reflects in Cuba Street 30

Larrikin Republic 31

Golden Boomerang 32

Hour of the Furnace 36

Austral Travellers 38

Hotel Pacific 40

Sydney Squall 42

Distance 43

Tropical Flu 45

4 Trumpets

Surge 50

Poem for the Sunburnt 51

Five Senses 52

Dust 53

Leaking Ceiling Poem 54

Brightness 55

On Ice 56

Clicker 57

Reflection within the Frame 59

Black Mirror 60

5 Tones

A Birthday Suit 62

The Book Reviewer 63

To a Tooth 64

Tulips 65

The Colour White 66

The Weather Bomb 68

6 Pulse

Fast Talker 72

Ballad of Sonatine 74

Body Clock 75

News and Weather 77

May Day 2001 78

May Day 2004 80

In the Godzone 82

Semiotics of Paradise 84

Fractal Planet 85

Uruwhenua, Gateway to the Land 86

Occasional Notes 89.

ISBN:

1869403606

OCLC:

68725792

Publisher Number:

9781869403607