Pasture and flock : new and selected poems / Anna Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Anna, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Zealand poetry--21st century.

New Zealand poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (149 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2018.

Summary:

There are some poets you travel the routes ofso often you could feel your way in the dark, that turn, that corner, and then the plummettowards the end. What does it give you, after all, to meet in person in a room? A thoughtthe dog doesn't share, when, having knownthe followed route, the stored scent, an affair of the air, here isthe other dog! Incarnate! Guessed and host! 'Poets know words, know routes, know ghosts'Uneasy nights out with dead Russian poets, dalliances with German gasfitters and emotionally fraught games of badminton are brought together for the first time, along with a brand new body of work, in this time-spanning selection of Anna Jackson's poetry. Local gothic, suburban pastoral and answerings-back to literary icons are all enhanced by Jackson's light hand and sly humour. Pastoral yet gritty, intellectual and witty, sweet but with stings in their tails, the poems and sequences collected in Pasture and Flock are essential reading for both long-term and new admirers of Jackson's slanted approach to lyric poetry.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Part one: 'I had a dream I was a ghost': six sequences

My friendship with Mayakovsky

The long road to teatime

Teatime with the Timorese

Catullus for children

The gas leak

From I, Clodia

Part two: 'Time to hold on to the leash': selected poems

Micky the fox terrier at the zoo

Zina at the zoo

The invisibility of poets

After the nit shampoo

Sarah's hair

Takahē

Basement

Badminton

Giving up

Doubling back

Speaking as one of the billiard balls

Salty hair

The fish and I

Unknown unknowns

We were at the British Museum?

It was an honour, John

Margo, or Margaux

Spring

Envelope

Indexing

Ghostess

Wondering how to see it

Ophthalmoscope

Seeing you

The pretty photographer

The photographer's hallway

The photographer in the library

The photographer's Olympics

Amanda in the mirror

Saoirse at the fridge

Sabina and the chain of friendship

Roland on the outskirts

Evelyn, after tennis-playing

Jane Eyre

Ishmael in the bedroom

The proof-reader after hours

Sylvia in the supermarket

Afraid of falls?

Part three: 'From just behind her eyes': new poems

Dear Tombs

Flammable

Mornings are sudden

Aline, waiting her turn

Thank you for having me, briefly, in your chamber

I have only to wait (after Sappho's 'Ode to Aphrodite')

The cooking show

Office and barnacles

Office pastoral

Le Corbusier

On my way elsewhere

Leaving the hotel room

To my hen-flock

Reading Horace and thinking about Susan Sontag

Poets know words, know routes, know ghosts

God and us

Late swim

James K. Baxter as the whale

Heart and slab (after Sappho's 'Some say cavalry . . .')

Nothing is too wonderful to be true

Unspoken, at breakfast

Eleanor, on the beach

Radishes.

Bees, so many bees

Pasture and flock

'Guessed and host': Endnotes and acknowledgements

Copyright.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed March 16, 2018).

ISBN:

9781775589716

1775589714

OCLC:

1027175175