03462nam 22005411 450 991103817770332120240401230006.01-86940-776-81-77558-632-4(CKB)2550000001165822(EBL)1411725(SSID)ssj0001153680(PQKBManifestationID)11670016(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001153680(PQKBWorkID)11150810(PQKB)11469460(MiAaPQ)EBC1531136(Au-PeEL)EBL1531136(CaPaEBR)ebr10812417(OCoLC)863822547(EXLCZ)99255000000116582220131208d2013 uy pengur|n|---|||||txtccrThe blue coat /Elizabeth SmitherAuckland, New Zealand :Auckland University Press,2013.1 online resource (81 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-86940-736-9 1-306-16034-0 COVER; CONTENTS; Black Labradors; Leaf flurry tram; Blossoms, marshmallows; The chipped Limoges plate; When to visit a cemetery; Governess sky; St Frances of Rome, patroness of car drivers; How to release a bee; The eye is badly designed; Restaurant, stars; The nurses are coming; The young women at the station; Babies in the gallery; The wedding tree; The underside of the miniature plane tree; Old lemon tree; Rose thirds; Tazetta daffodils in midwinter; Grass; High wind in the garden; Fountain; Calf weeding; Practising scales; How music is made; Stained-glass window seen from the rearTwo adorable things about MozartVirginia: gardening with transistor; The wedding lawn; Tonia looks at her hands; Amy brings the thesaurus; Intensive reading with Diana; All Saints' and the day of an operation; Last sister; Dying; Credo; Last week of a life; Merci d'exister: a French lesson; Tony Hoagland farewells the poets; Lipstick stain on a poem; Reading Maxine Kumin; The marking of The Great Gatsby; Meeting with two fans; Plaits; The blue coat; Engageantes = detachable sleeves; The bra fitting; Dressing in Nelson Street, King's Lynn; Cole dresses his mother; The birth dressing gownSa taille svelte de jeune filleFatherhood; Ruby's heirloom dress; Birthmark; The distraction from harm; For Ruby; Dickens and my father; Driving with my mother; My mother's fingernails; Gargoyles; Signing the will; Blessing the house for departureIn The Blue Coat, Elizabeth Smither examines the quotidian and the quirky for resonance, for contemplation, for verve. Here ?poetry has a place among other bodies', but also in enclosed gardens, in Chinese restaurants, in margins and in memory ? ?sometimes open and hospitable, sometimes secret, behind dark hedges'. Whimsical and tender, this latest collection demonstrates Smither's talent for illuminating the poetry in the everyday ? an out-of-season daffodil, a chipped Limoges plate. She is a master of the unfolding poem, in lines that take you from a single image to the cusp of somethinNew Zealand poetryNew Zealand poetry.NZ821.2Smither Elizabeth1941-1663133MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911038177703321The blue coat4454901UNINA