Deadpan / James Norcliffe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Norcliffe, James, 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Zealand poetry--21st century.

New Zealand poetry.

Genre:

New Zealand poetry -- 21st century.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

98 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Dead pan

Place of Publication:

Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2019.

Contents:

Part one: Poor Yorick (Poor Yorick [1. Yorick's heart ; 2. Yorick has a problem with personal freshness ; 3. Yorick loses his glass ; 4. Yorick as beast of burden ; 5. Yorick contemplates drinking straws for the future ; 6. Yorick admires the spider lily ; 7. Yorick laughs ; 8. Yorick weeps ; 9. Yorick considers the worm ; 10. Yorick considers the prince ; 11. Yorick considers the cat who may ; 12. Yorick remembers gamboling ; 13. Yorick considers Hamlet's skull])

Part two: Scan (Scan ; Night watch ; The last stop before Betyhlehem ; Black-faced sheep ; Route 1003 ; The poets at Makara ; Hochstetter's frog ; Naughty boys' island ; Crabmeat on the fifteenth floor ; Ziziphus ; Mycroft ; other lives ; The greengage man)

Part three: Trumpet vine (Trumpet vine ; Underwear ; The tennis ball ; There are times I feel like the egg ; Three times upon a time ; Precious McKenzie lifts himself ; The madness of crowds ; M. Hulot and the canary ; Deadpan ; Control tower ; Pool ; He had this thing ; The confession ; Pursued by crabs ; Dear Messrs. Smith & Wesson)

Part four: Telegraph Road (Telegraph Road ; Wallet ; scrim ; Site content ; Geographies ; Helios ; Waiting for the mulberry ; She moved through the silence ; Leaves ; Invasion)

Part five: Five travellers in a small Ford (Iron Heinrich ; Five travellers in a small Ford ; Nina Simonestraat in Nijmegen ; The muskrats at Versailles ; Near the Bonner Münster ; The Haribo factory ; At Ravenbourne ; Promenade ; Wasp at the trattoria ; At Andrès Carne de Res ; The knife ; Reforestation in the living room)

Notes:

Poems.

ISBN:

1988531756

9781988531755

OCLC:

1101570374