To the occupant / Emma Neale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neale, Emma, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Zealand poetry--21st century.

New Zealand poetry.

Genre:

New Zealand poetry -- 21st century.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

100 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2019.

Summary:

To the Occupant takes the everyday and transforms it into something fine and precious and enduring. With an unsparing attention, Emma Neale creates shape-shifting poems that confound prejudices and subvert expectations. Displaying verve and confidence, her poetry is filled with musicality and dynamic language, always observant to the world and its details. The striking imagery and emotional range of her work never veer into sentimentality. These poems engage with the full spectrum of human emotion and experience, the hauntings of history, the cold hand of social inequality, and the long contrail of intimate cruelties. They challenge the open and latent violence of contemporary life, from refugee crises to rape, poverty and mental illness to climate change, while revealing the extraordinary in the everyday, where a childs-eye view of the world can witness the wonder of the new or the shadow of darkness. Whimiscal typographical experiments and prose poems sit next to reimagined fables (the Big Bad Wolf repurposed as inner demon), deliciously light-handed satire, and quietly powerful insights into the contemporary political terrain. To the Occupant is an innovative and astounding collection from one of New Zealands leading writers of her generation.

Contents:

To the occupant

A room that held the sea. Courtship

Wild peregrinations

Wedding kiss

Morning song

A room that held the sea

'my mother in this way mixing me wings and tongue'

So buttoned up

Memorial service

Cut price

Will our small joys be only their ancestors?

Warning

Called

The belt

Big bad

The local pool

Minor goddess

'So sang a little clod of clay'. Harwood Beach walk: eavesdropping

Doorway

Mère-mare

'So sang a little clod of clay'

Tone poem

Resurrection

Teen genie

Tag

Two birds billing

Desire

It goes without saying

Aubade

Sheetweb spider

Blue rubato

Trainee emo

Sonnet for Mr Ponting, HOD Maths & Economics

Distance

Small wonder

Bilingual

Dark glass

My aunt's story

Still

Camellia trees

Withdrawn

The appointment

Removal

Slander

Turn

Swarm

Pivot

Selected letters. Underneath the fridge magnet

Affidavit

Letter from Hamelin

Letter from tomorrow's tomorrow and tomorrow

Dear friend

Dear adversity

Unlove

Blindsided

Long distance

The Tasti™ taste guarantee

Dear old diaries

Joy

Chain mail

Dear future, I'm afraid this is how I begin to lose you

Postcards just won't cut it

Economy of style

Envoi.

Notes:

Poems.

ISBN:

9781988531687

1988531683

OCLC:

1084407524