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Night horse / Elizabeth Smither.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smither, Elizabeth, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Night--Fiction.
- Night.
- Horses--Fiction.
- Horses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (78 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- In Elizabeth Smither's eighteenth collection of poetry her words are as vital as ever. The poems take the everyday - mothers and daughters, cats and horses, books and bowls, slippers and shirts - and transform them into something fresh: sometimes surreal, sometimes funny, often enchanted. And throughout, the work is infused with the personality of the author: a quirky, whimsical observer of the mundane world around her, which she shows to be full of surprises.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title page
- Imprint
- Dedication
- Contents
- My mother's house
- Miss Bowerman and the hot water bottles
- Swimming with our fathers
- Day breaks in dressing gowns
- Wedding car
- Eyebrows, toenails
- Slippers
- Amy in hospital with broken wrists
- Ironing shirts
- A fall of hair
- Tidying away the china
- An apple tree for Ruby
- Ruby and fruit
- The body of a little girl
- Meeting the Pope
- Cat night
- The wedding party of animals
- Night horse
- Blaming the horse
- Alice and the carrots
- Lying in the long grass between two black Labradors
- Ruby and the Labradors
- Morning blackbird on the lawn
- Coup de foudre
- Winged Victory: the Louvre
- Picasso's tenderness
- At the ballet
- The rosin box
- Re-reading Emma
- A friendship through books
- Two books, two bookmarks
- Three Willow Pattern bowls
- Holding hands
- Consolation
- Putting a line through addresses
- Tonia's cemetery
- Roadworks
- Driving with Amy in the MG
- Gold and dust
- A landscape of shining leaves
- Tenderness
- The mountain
- Perigee moon
- Spring bulbs
- Flying over Spain
- 8 little poems about Canberra
- Hay bales
- The tablecloth
- Oysters
- An extra oyster for the Doctors
- The name in the freezer
- The Filipina maid makes the bed
- The strangeness of purple
- A gift of spotted tights
- Wearing fur
- After a gastroscopy
- Ukulele for a dying child
- Young woman at an open casket
- My mother visits me in hospital
- The heart heals itself between beats
- Acknowledgements.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 5, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 9781775589433
- 1775589439
- 9781775589426
- 1775589420
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