Walls to kick and hills to sing from : a comedy with interruptions / Murray Edmond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edmond, Murray, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Zealand poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (107 p.)

Place of Publication:

Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Walls to Kick and Hills to Sing From: A Comedy with Interruptions is a new poetry collection from Murray Edmond. Arranged in six acts, ?Exposition', ?Complication', ?Revelation', ?Peripety', ?Catastrophe' and ?Denouement', it merrily experiments with voice and performance, including, in various forms, monologues, dialogues, choruses, songs, scene sets and storyboards. Edmond writes that ?there isn't a poem which couldn't have been otherwise / than it is', and in his poems form is aptly married to content. Language plays a starring role ? ?lobal glooming', ?mobile grooming', ?focal warping

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Epigraph; Table of Contents; 1 : Exposition; Setting the seal on NZ poetry; Nice hollow you've got; The passing of the forest; A social and poetic chorus; A ballad dreaming of home ...; Tender validation; The goat in Auckland; Ecstasy: a short film; 2 : Complication; Suburban nature morte; Album of the hour; A translation of one of the sonnets of the importunate; This one that one; Miniature; 3 : Revelation; Leaping Malinowski; The animals of the bed; Folk song; Galah; Rhapsody in pink; Old Good Friday; Whose say-so says so?; Never enough; That afternoon; 4 : Peripety

The first of the firstLast caravanserai; A name; The ballad of incommensurate space; You all do know this mantle; Of the nature of nature; 5 : Catastrophe; Small interior; Man alone; The Borgesian instance; How the rats of knowledge stayed on board to see the show; 18/4/1986 - 18/4/2006; 6 : Dénouement; Four little new year songs; Narrow roads to the east; Global whispers: a chorus; The Gates of Paradise; Notes; Copyright

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781775586913

177558691X

9781869406011

186940601X

9781775582380

1775582388

OCLC:

863823818