The Best Of Best New Zealand Poems

Author : Bill Manhire,Damien Wilkins
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780864737533

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The Best of Best New Zealand Poems by Bill Manhire,Damien Wilkins Pdf

Since 2000, the online anthology Best New Zealand Poems has showcased the most exciting and memorable poetry produced in this country. Here, for the first time, is a selection of this work in book form. Edited by founding publisher Bill Manhire, and writer Damien Wilkins, this anthology is an indispensable guide to the richness, strangeness, and liveliness of contemporary poetry. With over sixty poets appearing, there's classic work by some of the best-known figures in our writing, including Sam Hunt, Allen Curnow, Jenny Bornholdt, Cilla McQueen, Elizabeth Smither, and Ian Wedde; there are also compelling poems from new writers. Each poet's own note on the selection illuminates the work and takes us inside the writer’s personal workshop. The first decade of the new century comes into view as a vibrant, argumentative, restless period, with our poets unafraid of either political engagement or strong personal feeling.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : New Zealand poetry
ISBN : 1877159204

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Best New Zealand Poems 2015 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Godwit
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-04
Category : New Zealand poetry
ISBN : 1775534596

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Essential New Zealand Poems by Anonim Pdf

A must-have poetry companion for all lovers of New Zealand poetry New Zealanders adore poetry, and this expertly selected and handsomely packaged collection of over 150 poems published since the 1950s shows exactly why: New Zealand poetry is, by turns, distinctive, affecting, joyous, revealing, moving, challenging, startling, profound and intimate. It is our lyrical national voice. With its poems selected by Siobhan Harvey, Harry Ricketts and James Norcliffe, all talented poets, academics, anthologists and poetry champions, this book deserves a place on every New Zealander's bookshelves.

Author : Gregory O'Brien
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781775580232

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Beauties of the Octagonal Pool by Gregory O'Brien Pdf

Making unexpected connections, this book collects poems written from a variety of times, locations, and experiences—from the water frontage of Fiji, Fiordland, and the Mediterranean to the built history of Moscow and Berlin. Filled with a thoughtful musicality, a shambling romance, and a sense of humor, these witty and imaginative poems tell stories that range from a mechanical rat on Raoul Island to a black negligée and an ice-cream vendor in Moscow, and from a mayor and the Mistral in France to a new musical sound in New Zealand. Engaging and lively, this compilation highlights the persistent self-consciousness about the relationship between language and the world.

Author : Emma Barnes,Chris Tse
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781776710775

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Out Here by Emma Barnes,Chris Tse Pdf

A remarkable anthology of queer New Zealand voices. We became teenagers in the nineties when New Zealand felt a lot less cool about queerness and gender felt much more rigid. We knew instinctively that hiding was the safest strategy. But how to find your community if you're hidden? Aotearoa is a land of extraordinary queer writers, many of whom have contributed to our rich literary history. But you wouldn't know it. Decades of erasure and homophobia have rendered some of our most powerful writing invisible. Out Here will change that. This landmark book brings together and celebrates queer New Zealand writers from across the gender and LGBTQIA+ spectrum with a generous selection of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and much, much more. From established names to electrifying newcomers, the cacophony of voices brought together in Out Here sing out loud and proud, ensuring that future generations of queers are afforded the space to tell their stories and be themselves without fear of retribution or harm.

Author : Jenny Bornholdt,Gregory O'Brien,Mark Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : New Zealand
ISBN : IND:30000056654589

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An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English by Jenny Bornholdt,Gregory O'Brien,Mark Williams Pdf

This comprehensive Anthology of New Zealand poetry in English spans more than a century, revealing the richness, vitality and range of styles and voices to be found in the body of New Zealand verse. With an eye to both fairness and range, the editors have compiled a colection of New Zealand poetry remarkable as much for its diversity of poetic forms as for its wealth of voices.

Author : C. K. Stead
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781775582175

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The Yellow Buoy by C. K. Stead Pdf

Exploring literature, cultures, and surroundings—both physical and social—the poems in this collection are firmly attached to the author's memories. With appearances by various other literary fellows, in person, dream, or conversation—including Curnow, Kawharu, Sargeson, Creeley, Mansfield, and Wordsworth—this book also features warmly translated versions of poems by Montale, Vita, and Jaccottet alongside glimpses of fantails and elegies for friends. Urging its readers to stay alert and pay attention to each moment, these poems likewise consider the acceptance of silence.

Author : Mark Doty
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781439181522

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The Best American Poetry 2012 by Mark Doty Pdf

Edited this year by acclaimed poet and writer Doty, the foremost annual anthology of contemporary American poetry returns. It is an essential guide to contemporary American verse and the poets who define it.

Author : James M. Bertram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UCAL:B3474884

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New Zealand Love Poems by James M. Bertram Pdf

Author : Carolyn Beard Whitlow,Marilyn Krysl
Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781611685299

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Obsession by Carolyn Beard Whitlow,Marilyn Krysl Pdf

The sestina (of medieval French origin) is a complex poetic form of 39 lines (six sestets and a three-line "envoy") in which the six end-words (teleutons) of the lines of the first sestet stanza are repeated in a specific order as teleutons in the five succeeding sestets. In the envoy, the six teleutons are again picked up, one of them being buried in, and one finishing, each line. Because of the complexity of the form, the sestina fell out of favor with poets for several decades. However, a twenty-first century revival of the form is underway. This is the first anthology of sestinas that showcases both traditional and innovative examples of the form by modern and contemporary poets, award winners, and emerging writers alike. Organized by such themes as Americana; Art; Love and Sex; and Memory, Contemplation, Retrospection, and Death, the collection also includes sestinas with irregular teleutons and unconventional sestinas. An evocative introduction by Marilyn Krysl acquaints readers with the form. The volume concludes with useful indexes of first lines and teleutons, increasing access to the poems beyond the poets' names.

Author : Paula Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Children's poetry, New Zealand
ISBN : 1775533565

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A Treasury of NZ Poems for Children by Paula Green Pdf

An award-winning collection of the best New Zealand poems for children, edited by star New Zealand poet Paula Green and illustrated inventively by Jenny Cooper. Winner of a Storylines Notable Non-Fiction Award 2015 This exciting collection is truly a must-have for every home, school and library. Bursting with wonderful poems that will make you laugh, cry, nod and ponder, this book is beautifully illustrated and makes a perfect gift book. With a handsome modern design, it will make poetry fresh and alive to a new generation. There are poems by all the big names in both children's and adult writing, from Margaret Mahy and Hone Tuwhare to Denis Glover as well as some fresh new poets.

Author : Hannah Mettner
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 177656104X

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Fully Clothed and So Forgetful by Hannah Mettner Pdf

"Fully Clothed and So Forgetful is an intimate, intelligent first book by Hannah Mettner. Moving through love, motherhood, sexuality, family and anxiety, these poems infuse universal themes with wit and sudden, even shocking beauty"--Back cover.

Author : Rachel Falconer
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474414197

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Kathleen Jamie by Rachel Falconer Pdf

Analyses media representations of riots, strikes and protests

Author : David Lehman
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780822980971

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The State of the Art by David Lehman Pdf

The acclaimed annual, The Best American Poetry, is the most prestigious showcase of new poetry in the United States and Canada. Each year since the series began in 1988, David Lehman has contributed a foreword, and this has evolved into a sort of state-of-the-art address that surveys new developments and explores various matters facing poets and their readers today. This book collects all twenty-nine forewords (including the two written for the retrospective "Best of the Best" volumes for the tenth and twenty-fifth anniversaries.) Beginning with a new introduction by Lehman and a foreword by poet Denise Duhamel (guest editor for The Best American Poetry 2013), the collection conveys a sense of American poetry in the making, year by year, over the course of a quarter of a century.

Author : PHILIP. ARMSTRONG
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1988592410

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SINKING LESSONS. by PHILIP. ARMSTRONG Pdf