Tendering : New Poems

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911038162603321
• Autore: Wedde Ian
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Auckland, : Auckland University Press, 2013
• ISBN: 9781775586289; 1775586286
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (52 p.)
• Disciplina: 821.72
• Soggetti: English poetry -- New Zealand authors -- 19th century; English poetry -- New Zealand authors -- 20th century; English; Languages & Literatures; English Literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Acknowledgements ; Copyright ; Contents; 1; The Relocation of Railway Hut 49; The Marathon Swimmers - Short Circuit (tuki waka); 2: The Fall in America - letters from paradise; 3; Imperial Botanists; Privateer; Cruise; Barbary Coast; Mutiny on the Bounty; The Good News; Hawsers Hauled Taut
• Sommario/riassunto: <DIV></DIV>Steeped in the brilliance of the banal and the daily splendours of language, Wedde presents a beautifully controlled and ordered sequence of verse in <I>Tendering: New Poems</I>. The book was written, he says, 'in the ghostly presence of my great grandfather Heinrich Augustus Wedde, the last ship-rig pilot on Wellington harbour'. Powerful visions of ships, the sea and of Pacific voyages of exploration pervade the collection, as does that mean city to where the ships return home.