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Naming the beasts / Elizabeth Morton.
Van Pelt Library PR9639.4.M69 N36 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morton, Elizabeth, 1985- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New Zealand poetry.
- Genre:
- New Zealand poetry -- 21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 79 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- Naming the Beasts is a menagerie of poems about the gnarlier aspects of being a creature of this world. Within these pages wilderness and suburbia collide. The 'I' in these poems takes many forms: a wolf, a waterbuck, a bird 'stuck circling the carnage'. Whether soaring above or prowling through the neighbourhood, Morton's beasts bear witness to an unremitting vision of pain and ecological damage. As the flames climb higher, the beasts in this collection are left to wander and live out their lives. There is love and loneliness, passivity and rage. Yet there is always hope. Hoof and hide, fang and gut, these images and insights are those of an artist in a war zone intent on chronicling beauty in a world that's falling apart. Morton's poems take a bite out of the world around us, as they explore reality through the vitality and immersiveness of their imaginative powers.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Feral
- Grief
- Linnaeus eats the ocean
- Old doggo barks the world
- Mower
- Driving north
- Stalker
- Kuroko
- Birdlife in a broken century
- Rabbits
- We write what we know when we run out of things that we don't
- Maps
- If we are alone
- Castles
- Instructions on how to lose a mind
- Burn night
- Eternal recurrence
- Poem in which we sleep at the wheel
- The lost ones
- A history of wading backwards
- Metaphors are for pussies
- Widdershins
- Textbook
- Fire
- The luck of things
- Passengers
- My final gift
- I hope this is mine
- Stolen pepeha
- If Vivaldi were under a CTO
- The gospel
- Vertical
- Visitor
- Amor fati
- Nostalgia is a thing of the past
- Immunohistochemistry
- Relatives
- Time
- Naming the beasts
- It will blow over
- God of nations
- Mapping old stars
- Hard sell
- What we wish
- Road trip with my adolescent self
- Cowboys are an animal left too long
- The toll
- We go down together
- I forgot why I came
- When I try to meditate the waterbuck explodes
- The penultimate garden
- Breaking news
- Patmos
- Fire in the slaughterhouse
- Dream-deer attends the collapse
- Gestalt
- Drift.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- ISBN:
- 9781990048388
- 1990048382
- OCLC:
- 1311952882
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