Fast talker / David Eggleton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eggleton, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australian poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 p.)

Place of Publication:

Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of poetry by a self-confessed ?ranter', Fast Talker is energetic, contemporary, and filled with an emphatic, punchy political and social awareness. Some of the poems are indeed Eggleton's well-known ?rants' ? part showman patter, part incantation, part prophetic diatribe ? that range helter skelter over the Kiwi psyche, the South Pacific, the media, the suburbs of Auckland, big business and the worlds of war and commodity. Fast Talker is, however, more varied in tone than Eggleton's previous books and traverses a wider landscape than his usual stomping ground. Other poems, m

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title Page; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; ONE SIRENS; AUTUMN BLAST; SNOW AT 2 A.M.; ODE TO MAGNETIC SOUTH; AUCKLAND ROAD ODE; SUMMER CATAMARAN; SEA CHANGE AT TRAFFIC LIGHTS; TITIRANGI CONSIDERED AS WEARABLE ART; WATER VIEWS; TWO DRUMS; THE FENCERS; ABOVE A SOUTH ISLAND SHEEP STATION; MELODY OF THE COLD FRONT; OLD RAILWAY LINE TO THE MANIOTOTO; NIGHT ROAD; DRIFTING CONE; VISIONS OF SUBURBIA; THE BUSH PADDOCK; AULD REEKIE; THE SCENIC ROUTE; THREE MESSAGE STICKS; VANISHING MAP; NAME OF THE HURRICANE; A PACIFIC ISLANDER REFLECTS IN CUBA STREET; LARRIKIN REPUBLIC

GOLDEN BOOMERANGHOUR OF THE FURNACE; AUSTRAL TRAVELLERS; HOTEL PACIFIC; SYDNEY SQUALL; DISTANCE; TROPICAL FLU; FOUR TRUMPETS; SURGE; POEM FOR THE SUNBURNT; FIVE SENSES; DUST; LEAKING CEILING POEM; BRIGHTNESS; ON ICE; CLICKER; REFLECTION WITHIN THE FRAME; BLACK MIRROR; FIVE TONES; A BIRTHDAY SUIT; THE BOOK REVIEWER; TO A TOOTH; TULIPS; THE COLOUR WHITE; THE WEATHER BOMB; SIX PULSE; FAST TALKER; BALLAD OF SONATINE; BODY CLOCK; NEWS AND WEATHER; MAY DAY 2001; MAY DAY 2004; IN THE GODZONE; SEMIOTICS OF PARADISE; FRACTAL PLANET; URUWHENUA, GATEWAY TO THE LAND; OCCASIONAL NOTES; Copyright

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781869406028

1869406028

9781775580652

1775580652