From the Word Go.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edmond, Murray, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Zealand poetry--20th century.

Local Subjects:

New Zealand poetry--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (60 p.)

Place of Publication:

Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2013.

Summary:

<DIV></DIV>The poems in<I> From the Word Go</I> come in various shapes, sizes and styles. All make language work hard, are vivid and carefully crafted, and put the reader in contact with a lively, inventive mind. The verses are often prose-like, where meaning builds up line by line. Edmond has a fantastic ear and his poems are always enjoyable.

Contents:

Cover; Dedication ; Copyright ; Contents; The Word Go; Dead Lines; The Life Frieze; Faviola; Bradman; The 1895 Kiss; Snake; The Blue Boy; Dutch Interior; Crows over a Cornfield; Reunion; Rerun; Ode to Virgil Exner; Hamilton; S O S; Cookbook; Home Movies; Travelogue 1958-59; Horror Movie; Cult Classic; Road Movie Canto; Melodrama; The Space of Time; Hirsute Canine Narrative; Holiday; Pnigos; Cool in versions; Go to Woe; How to Write Laments; Dèrive à la Frank; Script; Treating of Why Ten Eyes Weep; The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations; Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781775585541

1775585549

OCLC:

863821885