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Nouns, verbs, etc. : (selected poems) / Fiona Farrell.
Van Pelt Library PR9639.3.P55 N68 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Farrell, Fiona, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- New Zealand poetry -- 21st century.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 211 pages ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Selected poems
- Place of Publication:
- Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, Te Whare tā o Te Wānanga o Otākou, 2020.
- Summary:
- "One of New Zealand's most versatile writers, Fiona Farrell has published four collections of poetry over 25 years, from Cutting Out (1987) to The Broken Book (2011). Nouns, verbs, etc. collects the best work from these books, and intersperses them with other poems thus far 'uncollected'. The themes are wide ranging: political and personal, regional and global, including love and birth and death, war and emigration, history and landscape. The poems mix lyricism with the flat and plainspoken mode of Kiwi vernacular; they channel voices infrequently heard in poetry in traditional song and ballad forms. They are well crafted but unpretentious, jokey yet illuminating, self-deprecating but wise, sad and funny and deeply human."--Publisher description.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Cutting Out 1987
- Moving
- Three births
- Passengers
- Love songs
- Jigsaw
- Cemetery, Oamaru
- Uncollected poems
- The castle
- The bird
- Whirl
- Knot-tying for beginners
- She comes along
- The people upstairs
- Love me
- Clean sheet night
- The Inhabited Initial 1999
- The inhabited initial
- To the point
- Words, war and water
- Ursula at Parakakariki
- Sheep
- Earth
- Sound tracks
- What it's like
- Creed
- In a nutshell
- Our trip to Takaka
- Falling in love on the way home
- Valley
- Weather
- Hugh playing the Moonlight
- The thread
- Mrs Pig
- Drive
- Once
- Eel
- The Pop-Up Book of Invasions 2007 The invasion
- The canoe in the National Museum
- Genealogy
- Ballad
- Spades
- The Book of the Dun Cow
- The Lament of the Nun of Beare
- The flood
- Hair
- The verb `to be'
- The fathers
- Hoarfrost
- Recession plane
- Shortcut
- The Broken Book 2011
- The horse
- The tarp
- Lipstick
- Black and white
- The table
- Julia at Tai Tapu
- The joke
- Panegyric
- The poem that is like a city
- The fall of empires
- The limit
- The old woman's story
- Terror
- Instructions for the Consumption of your Humanitarian Food Package
- Myth and Legend
- Photo opportunity.
- Notes:
- Anthology.
- Coloured illustration on inside of cover.
- ISBN:
- 9781988592534
- 1988592534
- OCLC:
- 1176323806
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