All Cretans are liars and other poems. / Anne French.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

French, Anne, 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (88 p.)

Place of Publication:

Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, [2013]

Summary:

<DIV></DIV>The poems in All Cretans are Liars are written for friends, lovers, for a small son, for explaining solitude or betrayal - they start out this way but soon take on their own life and walk out to meet us. Anne French sees her poems as small fictions, where intense personal experiences are crafted into elegant and ironic artefacts. This voice is warm, honest and sophisticated. All Cretans are Liars is an accomplished first collection by a poet who became a leading New Zealand voice.

Contents:

All Cretans are Liars; All Cretans are Liars; Contents; 1: Disclosures; The solitary life; Congratulations; Anglican Church, Pakaraka; Letter to Kevin Ireland; Simultaneous equations; A kind of love poem; A visit to Isola Bella; All Cretans are liars; Collisions; Night flying; Cricket; A summer storm; Satyric; Disclosures; 'This could have been another poem'; O quam gloriosum; Writing; Learning to pee standing up; 2: Photographs for Daddy; Eucalypts, Greenlane; 'it, then'; Confessional - five sonnets; A year/ago; Several ways of looking at it; An evening in November; Photographs for Daddy

3: New Zealand DayIt's; Kite; Advice to a prospective lover; All you may depend on; Parts of speech; Ichthus; Literary congress; Notes on the third time; New Zealand Day; Copyright

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781775580126

1775580121

OCLC:

862828958