Selected poems / Charles Brasch ; chosen by Alan Roddick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brasch, Charles.

Contributor:

Roddick, Alan, 1937-

Creative New Zealand.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Zealand poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

150 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2015.

Summary:

Charles Brasch (1909-1973) was the founder and first editor of "Landfall," New Zealand's premier journal of literature and ideas. Born in Dunedin, he grew up to be at home in the literature, art, and architecture of Europe, but returned to devote his life to the arts in his own country--as editor, critic, collector, and patron. Brasch's vocation, however, was to be a poet. As he said in his memoir "Indirections," in writing poems he "discovered New Zealand . . . because New Zealand lived in me as no other country could live, part of myself as I was part of it, the world I breathed and wore from birth, my seeing and my language." This selection of Brasch's poetry shows his journey of discovery as he learned by reading poets such as Rilke, W. B. Yeats, and Robert Graves to find his own voice as "a citizen of the English language."

Contents:

From the land and the people. The land and the people (I)

Pipikariti

Waianakarua

The land and the people (III)

Crossing the straits

From disputed ground. Forerunners

The islands (2)

A view of Rangitoto

Otago landscapes

Great sea

Soldier in reverie

In memory of Robin Hyde 1906-39

From the estate. Blueskin Bay

In memory of Willi Fels (1858-1946)

The ruins

Oreti Beach

To J.B. at forty

Letter from Thurlby Domain

Autumn, Thurlby Domain

Self to self

Fuchsia excorticata

Rest on the flight into Egypt

Rain over Mitimiti Mountains

From the estate

From ambulando. Ambulando

From Ben Rudd

From in your presence

Seventeen April

By that Sea

Cry Mercy

From not far off. A closed book

Lady engine

Ode in grey

Man missing

Open the heart

Signals

At pistol point

Bonnet and plume

From Chantecler

From home ground. Shoriken

Semblances

Eternal questions

World without end

'If every street'

From home ground

From last poems. 'Here too the leaf-dark forest bird'

From night cries, Wakari Hospital

Tempora Mutantur

Fabled city of Agape

Watch-dog

A word to Peter Olds

Winter Anemones

From 'back from death'

The clear.

Notes:

"Published with the assistance of Creative New Zealand"--Back of title page.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781877578052

1877578053

OCLC:

904440782