Record Nr.

UNINA9910787779303321

Autore

Charman Janet

Titolo

Cold snack / / Janet Charman

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Auckland, New Zealand : , : Auckland University Press, , 2008
©2007

ISBN

1-77558-532-8

1-86940-499-8

1-77558-046-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (134 p.)

Disciplina

821.914

821/.914

Soggetti

New Zealand poetry - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Poems.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title Page; Table of Contents; 1 busy with the short teacher; busy with the short teacher; test test test one two; fish and chips; 'those who can, teach'; wake up to yourself; lessons from the Waitakeres; all of this remains within my sight; Lord of the Rings; my albatross; Tiritiri Matangi; parent teacher interviews; Smackdown Wrestling; invigilator; 2 televisioner; televisioner; 3 cold snack; cold snack; night wear; before you eat; tea mind; the sock of the self; hot flash odalisque; set point; twelve degrees of separation; a dinner party; Also by Janet Charman; Copyright

Sommario/riassunto

cold snack is an immensely readable collection, among the most accessible that well-loved poet Janet Charman has written. The book brims with poems of suburbia, families, workplaces, ordinary life. In the first section Charman explores the pains and pleasures (mostly the pains) of becoming a schoolteacher in midlife, ?rerouted back to class'?the fish-swim of routine, pedagogy and (teacher) truancy, parent?teacher interviews, assessment ?in the jelly sway of the kelp forest'. The second section, ?televisioner', is a single long sequence that views the over-confident 1980s from the unlikely