Sinking lessons / Philip Armstrong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Armstrong, Philip, 1967- author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

New Zealand poetry -- 21st century.

Physical Description:

53 pages : illustration ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, Te Whare Tā o Te Wānanga o Ōtākou, 2020.

Summary:

The poems in Sinking Lessons portray the vitality of a world full of things and beings we too often disregard, using language that vibrates in harmony with the lively tales it tells - from small, everyday events to stories of shipwrecks and strandings, resurrections and reanimations, arctic adventures and descents into the underworld. The cast of characters includes members of the poet's family alongside heroes from myth and literature, such as Orpheus, Scheherazade and Frankenstein's Creature. And crowding in upon these, at all times, a multitude of non-human protagonists: sun and stars, wind and water, mud and sand, body fluids, decaying matter, chemicals organic and inorganic, and a great many fishes and birds and beasts.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: A Horizontal Light

Portolan

Sinker

Call Sign

Rising Sign

Swimming Lessons

Die Traumdeutung

The Old Man of the Sea

General Relativity

Longitude

A Visit to Hell

Obiter Dicta

1. Voccus

2. Going to a Funeral

Jeremiad

Creature Effects

Best Before

The Widening Gyre

Resurrexit

The Female Me

Book of Beasts

1. Some Avian Habitats

2. A Vulnerable Species

3. A Parasite

4. Mutualism

5. Great Apes

In the Infinity Pool

The Wake-Up

Self Introduced

Eel Dream

A Note upon the Mystic Writing-Pad

Song of the Orpheus

Headwind

Holding Still.

Notes:

Poems.

Winner of the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2019.

ISBN:

9781988592411

1988592410

OCLC:

1145914395