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Listening in / Lynley Edmeades.

Van Pelt Library PR9707.E25 L57 2019
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Edmeades, Lynley, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
New Zealand poetry--21st century.
New Zealand poetry.
Genre:
New Zealand poetry -- 21st century.
Poetry.
Physical Description:
96 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, Te Whare Tā o Te Wānanga o Ōtākou, 2019.
Summary:
"In this original second collection, Lynley Edmeades turns her attention to ideas of sound, listening and speech. Listening In is full of the verbal play and linguistic experimentation that characterised her first collection, but it also shows the poet pushing the form into new territories. Her poems show, often sardonically, how language can be undermined: linguistic registers are rife with uncertainties, ambiguities and accidental comedy.She shuffles and reshuffles statements and texts, and assumes multiple perspectives with the skill of a ventriloquist. These poems probe political rhetoric and linguistic slippages with a sceptical eye, and highlight the role of listening - or the errors of listening - in everyday communication"--Back cover.
Contents:
Calm and
Nodding is soft
Where would you like to sit
The order of things
Blue planet sky
The day
Things to do with verbs
Things to do with day
Island
The way
Indonesian wedding
Chickens
The Bee Elle
Les voisins
L'Ordre des things
The age of reason
Like a vase
Loveliness extreme
Extreme loveliness
Extremely love
Thェ オrder オf thイngs
Remainder
The dubious structural expressiveness of Arnaut Daniel
Say sibilance
Ear cleaning
Thuh awrder uhv things
Speetch
Again America great make
Ask woman
From a place inside where a planet grows
Are you a proper nounDefinite article abstract noun preposition plural abstract noun
Comment
The kangaroos
Islands of stone Word
[Order of things]
Border
Colonial lag
Teaching
Constellations
Workshop
Triptych:
1. Hooks
2. Knickers
3. Camille
We've all got to be somewhere
Octagonal
Thickness
Das order von dings
Half
On the death of her father
Poem (Frank O'Hara has collapsed)
Some bodies make babies
Did
In other words
Hand
All the people are not you.
Notes:
Poems.
ISBN:
9781988531786
1988531780
OCLC:
1105064588

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