02401nam 22006011 450 991045348400332120200520144314.01-86940-774-11-77558-650-2(CKB)2550000001165817(EBL)1411756(SSID)ssj0001059957(PQKBManifestationID)11674153(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001059957(PQKBWorkID)11086580(PQKB)10714514(MiAaPQ)EBC1531126(MiAaPQ)EBC1411756(Au-PeEL)EBL1531126(CaPaEBR)ebr10812433(OCoLC)863822472(Au-PeEL)EBL1411756(CaONFJC)MIL582197(OCoLC)865330108(EXLCZ)99255000000116581720130208d2013 uy pengur|n|---|||||txtccrThe lifeguard poems, 2008-2013 /Ian WeddeAuckland, New Zealand :Auckland University Press,2013.1 online resource (97 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-86940-769-5 1-306-16029-4 Cover; CONTENTS; The Lifeguard; Help!; Another bottle of oil; Help!; The Look; Three Elegies; Harry Martens; Mahmoud Darwish; Oum Kalsoum; Shadow Stands Up?You have to start somewhere / in these morose times' begins the title sequence of this collection, in which the dual, duelling lifeguards of east and west, sunrise and sunset, glib Narcissus and one-eyed Polyphemus, watch over a collection that explores the contradictions between life's pool-side surfaces and frightening undertows. Ian Wedde's poet laureate collection, dedicated to his grandchildren Bella and Sebo, opens with a major new series ?The Lifeguard', and finishes with a second long sequence, ?Shadow Stands Up', in which a world of Platonic memory and tidal recurrence is observNew Zealand literatureNew Zealand poetryElectronic books.New Zealand literature.New Zealand poetry.821.2Wedde Ian872677MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453484003321The lifeguard2448646UNINA