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Autore |
Leggott Michele J |
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Titolo |
Mirabile dictu / / Michele Leggott |
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Auckland, N.Z. : , : Auckland University Press, , 2009 |
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©2009 |
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1-77558-594-8 |
1-86940-619-2 |
1-77558-124-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (260 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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New Zealand poetry - Women authors |
New Zealand poetry - 21st century |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Poems, some previously published in journals and anthologies. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title Page; Dedication; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Table of Contents; work for the living; poppies and plane trees; mirabile dictu; te matau / the hook; great readers; te ahi tapu rākau / jacob's fire song; tell your mama; gala apples; taking it seriously; nice feijoas; slow reader; elevador; the liberty of parrots; recombination; the darwin lecture; teatro della limonaia; il mantello / the cloak; rangehoo; nonpareil; te hākari / the feast; tricky attractions; ascensore; passaggiata; primavera; redentore; tessuti; calypso; smoke tree; everywhere instantly; opening the tomb; untitled figure |
molly and friendsshore space; la chaloupe / the boat; bad economic news; heart of the rio grande; a civilian widow; vernacular serenade; letter to dulcie jackson; gulielmus igitur; te hāhi / the connexion; their osseous remains; the year of the elephant; language and event; dear stormbird; town and country; family sightings on the mainland; one for murray; grand moonlight excursion and dance; timaru march 30 1901; keep this book clean; reading the world; peri poietikes; wonderful to relate; winter 1928; more like wellington every day; Copyright |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In 2008 Michele Leggott wrote a poem a week to record her term as the inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate. In her collection of poems |
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Mirabile Dictu (amazing to say), she relates the wonders of those 12 months, which took her to Matahiwi Marae in Hawke's Bay to receive her brilliant sky-blue, specially carved tokotoko, Te Kikorangi; through a time of mourning for and celebration of former poet laureate Hone Tuwhare; to Florence, across a ?poetic bridge'; and to Wellington ?hand to hand' with four other laureates. With her is Te Kikorangi as guide and companion ? ?almost as good as the blu |
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