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At the white coast / / Janet Charman



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Autore: Charman Janet Visualizza persona
Titolo: At the white coast / / Janet Charman Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Auckland, New Zealand : , : Auckland University Press, , 2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (87 p.)
Disciplina: 811.52
Soggetto topico: New Zealand poetry
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; 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; consommé; 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 . . .
Mother 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
Sommario/riassunto: Making 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
Titolo autorizzato: At the white coast  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-77558-507-7
1-86940-760-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
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Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910787746503321
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