Tigers at Awhitu / Sarah Broom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sarah, Broom.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--Collections.

Poetry.

Poets, New Zealand.

New Zealand poetry--20th century.

New Zealand poetry.

New Zealand poetry--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (80 p.)

Place of Publication:

Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Against a backdrop of many times and landscapes, the poems in Tigers at Awhitu , the first, luminous book by Sarah Broom, chart the drifts and tides of intimate relationships, the physical extremes of illness, the complexities of motherhood. Here a refugee family walks north on a frozen road; a solitary figure sleeps in the desert outside a fabular city; a mother watches a child's first gesture. With tough, deft attention to language and its emotional power, Sarah Broom asks us to consider our relationships with the world and with words. Hers is an unflinching and original new voice in New Zealand poetry.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Snow; The Butterfly House; Boy; Under the Hospital; Spring; North; Everest; Delta; The Third Daughter; Leviticus; Twins; Crusade; All my life; Monochrome; Fosterling; What happens; She walks through the house; Scarecrow and Crow; Echoes; Heat; Displacement; The First Gesture; Red Sail; The Island; Husk; World; Absence; Being; Auction; The Years; The Wrong Death; Three Birds; Muriwai; Caving; Words; The Cough; This space; The City; The Plain; Keep moving; NO; Hospital Property; Ward 64; Three Exercises for Oncologists; What the wind does; Rain; Panther; Ectopic; Hold it there

One more time nowLook closely; A Terribly Unfair Question; Tigers at Awhitu; Not yet, not now; because the world can do that to you; Matakawau

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781869406097

1869406095

OCLC:

863821750