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Young country / Kerry Hines ; with photographs by William Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hines, Kerry, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New Zealand poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 pages) : illustrations, photographs
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- This book is a collection of poetry by 21st-century writer Kerry Hines, alongside images by 19th-century photographer William Williams. The wry, plainspoken but haunting poems sit alongside evocative photographs of settlement: landscapes, streetscapes, skyscapes; the escapades of a trio of flatmates; portraits of family and friends; burned bush and rising buildings. The book features many figures: Williams and his housemates Tom and Alex; ethnographer Elsdon Best; notorious criminals and the judges who sentenced them; the mythic creature Shellycoat who accompanied the Scottish settlers; wives, prostitutes, and "hallelujah lassies"; and visiting professor Robert Wallace, who cast an outsider view on this new society. Together, the stunning photographs and poems of Young Country offer a meditation on how we capture the present and re-present the past, on the parallels between building a community and authoring a text, and on the possibilities that expansive fiction offers to documented truth.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title page
- Contents
- i. The Old Shebang
- Three beds, candle extinguished
- Tom awake
- Iuniores ad labores
- The Clerk
- Wellington
- Cuba St, Homeward
- Alex
- Tom at board
- he sings the old songs...
- He dreams briefly
- Our Friend Best
- The Beach
- afterwards he waited as...
- Under Tom's dreams
- Etiquette
- Tom disappears from view
- ii. Never far from water
- British Eden
- Shellycoat
- The nationalities
- River Hutt
- The picnic
- After the flood
- Crush
- Walking her home
- Civics
- The usual alternative
- The man who tried to kill himself with an axe
- Three in the morning...
- The back of the property
- Brain-fever
- The widow
- The hallelujah lassie
- The maid
- The dock
- The prospector
- The night-soil man
- Smoko
- Lower reaches
- iii. Settlement
- Settlement
- iv. Whakaki
- Letters home
- Infrastructure
- Sarah
- The author in New Zealand
- Tuhara
- The lady is Miss Devereux
- The man who lived on beer
- Enclosure
- Neighbours
- Hunter Brown
- small men, short tempers...
- Dinner
- Factotum
- Uncos
- When the community changes faith
- Gossip
- The guest room
- Notes to poems
- Note on the photographs
- List of photographs
- Acknowledgements
- Selected Bibliography
- About the author and photographer
- Copyright.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781775587712
- 1775587711
- 9781869408237
- 1869408233
- 9781775587705
- 1775587703
- 9781775587736
- 1775587738
- OCLC:
- 893656580
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