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Mister Hamilton / John Dickson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dickson, John, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City and town life--Poetry.
- City and town life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (85 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Mister Hamilton, John Dickson's first collection in eighteen years, is an appealing, questioning mix of elements. Over a base of South Island bedrock (granite, schist, greywacke), Dickson has peopled this quietly fiery collection with day-to-day working voices and narratives, sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, sometimes charged with a political consciousness and lyrical intensity. Shot-through with veins of jazz, rock and blues, quizzical religiosity and a streak of the absurd, this book takes a fresh look at the streets and lawns and people of urban and suburban ‘Pig Island' and offers some thoughtful, wisely pitched and immensely likeable poems. And who is Mister Hamilton? A familiar everyman, a voice of authority, a common presence, an old friend – readers may make up their own minds after spending time in the company of Dickson and his book.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraphs
- The reader of hands
- Plainsong
- Spinster
- Two small girls visit ChristChurch Cathedral
- Grace Jones
- A short history of rock and roll in Southland
- The light above his head
- Doubtful Sound 1
- Doubtful Sound 2
- Dee Street, Invercargill, 1960
- The persistence of football results on Bealey Ave
- Veteran of a war one side won
- Two ways of being impatient
- Pensioner
- The smile
- Piano time with Monk
- Question
- Memory
- Do you want to replace the existing Austin Seven?
- Too late for real
- Second remembered lesson in resistance
- This is Zepf's poem almost word for word
- The trouble with disciples
- A glimmering of grand ultimate fist
- Nail
- Her words, her vision mainly
- Something else
- My coat
- Poem for my father
- Gravity
- Roadside near Meremere
- Postcards from Dunedin
- Ringmaster
- Full moon
- The vanishing of one hundred billion thoughts without acting
- Sixties relic surveys his lawn
- Armchair
- Report
- The sound of cash
- Wasp
- Fourteen lines for Jen
- The fingers of Django Reinhardt
- A note concerning names
- Notes and acknowledgements
- Imprint Page.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 23, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 9781775588887
- 1775588882
- 9781775588863
- 1775588866
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