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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463858903321

Autore

Wedde Ian

Titolo

Drummer [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Auckland, : Auckland University Press, 2013

ISBN

1-77558-641-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (41 p.)

Disciplina

821

Soggetti

New Zealand poetry

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright ; Contents; Odysseus; Taking Breath; Hotel Terminus; A Birthday Ode to the Muse; Katrina's Ballad; Barbary Coast; The Stowaway; The Astronomer in Love; Six False Starts ...; A Transport Disaster; A Ballad for Worser Heberley; Ode to Lee Hatherley's Video; The Insomniac's Lexicon; The Drummer; Two Odes to Desire; Ode to Unsealed Roads; Astral Travel

Sommario/riassunto

<DIV><I>The Drummer</I> is Ian Wedde's eighth collection and it is plump with exquisite visual images, lost faith in language, revelations of intense beauty and literary allusions (from the Romantics to the New Zealand tradition). This is what the author writes about his collection: 'The word 'transport' seems to me to describe an event anywhere between a bus-trip and a vision. The dogged example of Odysseus in one margin, the raptures of language in another. The bliss of movement, the transport of dreams. The word romance is uniting gravity and desire. It is the romance I wanted for poems and