Tendering : New Poems

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wedde, Ian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--New Zealand authors--19th century.

English poetry--New Zealand authors--20th century.

Local Subjects:

English poetry--New Zealand authors--19th century.

English poetry--New Zealand authors--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (52 p.)

Other Title:

Tendering

Place of Publication:

Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<DIV></DIV>Steeped in the brilliance of the banal and the daily splendours of language, Wedde presents a beautifully controlled and ordered sequence of verse in <I>Tendering: New Poems</I>. The book was written, he says, 'in the ghostly presence of my great grandfather Heinrich Augustus Wedde, the last ship-rig pilot on Wellington harbour'. Powerful visions of ships, the sea and of Pacific voyages of exploration pervade the collection, as does that mean city to where the ships return home.

Contents:

Cover; Acknowledgements ; Copyright ; Contents; 1; The Relocation of Railway Hut 49; The Marathon Swimmers - Short Circuit (tuki waka); 2: The Fall in America - letters from paradise; 3; Imperial Botanists; Privateer; Cruise; Barbary Coast; Mutiny on the Bounty; The Good News; Hawsers Hauled Taut

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781775586289

1775586286

OCLC:

863821764