LEADER 02911nam 2200493 450 001 9910787746503321 005 20230801231448.0 010 $a1-77558-507-7 010 $a1-86940-760-1 035 $a(CKB)2670000000492042 035 $a(EBL)1531111 035 $a(OCoLC)863822563 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001152954 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11727025 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001152954 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11151034 035 $a(PQKB)10844745 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1531111 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000492042 100 $a20131227d2012 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAt the white coast /$fJanet Charman 210 1$aAuckland, New Zealand :$cAuckland University Press,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (87 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-86940-728-8 327 $aCover; Dedication; Contents; at the white coast; The Embankment; bag end; so i'll get where i am; light and power; i admit it; work in a pub for a bit; panel of three; an office full of social workers; night bird; work from home; The Mall; but yesterday; i must get out; we don't get the sun in Dear; habits and modes of life; team lunch; septuagenarian feels the cold; help for her heart; Spinster Street Station; Doctoring Road; consomme?; get her to give up; eight walkouts; you might not think so; wrong train; The Spike; what to wear to work; great outdoors with work . . . 327 $aMother won't come to usRoma; train to Munich; Frauenhaus; train to Bremen; take out; haemorrhaging Mary; point of difference; Delphi; i took my cold to work; tea-makings; the family complaint; in the study group; tenancy requirements; the changing bag; Theatre Girls Club; a key swan; croissants cost stick to baguettes; go back to Paris . . .; on Boxing Day; dark crescents; when the domestics . . .; i want more; a long engagement; open ticket; homecoming; Copyright 330 $aMaking landfall among the inhabitants of a gritty metropolis, these poems transport the reader from the white coast of New Zealand, the Land of the Long White Cloud, to the shores of another country and another time. Set on the cusp of the 1970s and 1980s, Janet Charman's compelling poetry collection centers on the disorienting experiences of a young woman from the former British colony of New Zealand who has newly arrived in London-squalid flats, temp work, ancestral visits, and trips to the continent. With an eye for unsettling social cues, he 606 $aNew Zealand poetry 615 0$aNew Zealand poetry. 676 $a811.52 700 $aCharman$b Janet$01487417 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787746503321 996 $aAt the white coast$93739223 997 $aUNINA