LEADER 03466nam 22005411 450 001 9910790853803321 005 20230803022517.0 010 $a1-86940-776-8 010 $a1-77558-632-4 035 $a(CKB)2550000001165822 035 $a(EBL)1411725 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001153680 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11670016 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001153680 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11150810 035 $a(PQKB)11469460 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1531136 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1531136 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10812417 035 $a(OCoLC)863822547 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001165822 100 $a20131208d2013 uy p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe blue coat /$fElizabeth Smither 210 1$aAuckland, New Zealand :$cAuckland University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (81 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-86940-736-9 311 $a1-306-16034-0 327 $aCOVER; 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 rear 327 $aTwo 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 gown 327 $aSa 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 departure 330 $aIn 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 somethin 606 $aNew Zealand poetry 615 0$aNew Zealand poetry. 676 $aNZ821.2 700 $aSmither$b Elizabeth$f1941-$01464647 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790853803321 996 $aThe blue coat$93674405 997 $aUNINA