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As the verb tenses / Lynley Edmeades.
Van Pelt Library PR9639.4 .E364 A88 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edmeades, Lynley, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Poetry.
- Music.
- New Zealand poetry.
- Children--Poetry.
- Children.
- Loss (Psychology)--Poetry.
- Loss (Psychology).
- New Zealand poetry--21st century.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 64 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- "As the Verb Tenses is the work of a reflective and sensitive poetic talent: one run with gleaming wires of joy. In poems that gather together the vivid details of childhood memory, the surreal juxtapositions of life in the contemporary West, the wry observations of a temporary expatriate, the deeply lodged pain of historical and personal loss, Lynley Edmeades speaks to us in delicately spun lines that press out ironies, dissonances and profound formative experience. From playful, rhythmical poems about the art of dinner conversation, to warm glimpses of intimacy, she lays poetry's table with the knife of light satire, the bright salt of wit, the heady wine of love, the bread of knowledge. This quietly poised, confident first collection has a musical, emotional and thematic range of a substantial new talent"--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Imperial
- The order of things
- Whites Road
- Twins
- Second hand
- Between speech and song
- Listening in
- Away
- By the book
- Carry on
- Cregagh Road
- Inis Mór
- As if
- East Belfast
- Orange order
- Parlez-vous
- Things to do with lists
- Deipnosophy
- Miss New Zealand
- Lake Baikal
- Optimism
- Faute de mieux
- During
- Picture
- Northern light
- La strada
- Whereabouts
- Love poem
- Contained
- In it
- Towards whatever it is that keeps things apart
- Albatross
- Meal
- Terminus
- Afternoon
- Figure of speech I
- Instrumental
- Piano
- Timpani/kettledrum
- Scales
- Metronome
- Flautist
- Trilling
- Guitar Frets
- Piano II
- Flute
- Wake
- Figure of speech II
- Interior, midday
- The order of things.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- ISBN:
- 1927322251
- 9781927322253
- OCLC:
- 932388533
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