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1 online resource |
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Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; My mother's house; Miss Bowerman and the hot water bottles; Swimming with our fathers; Day breaks in dressing gowns; Wedding car; Eyebrows, toenails; Slippers; Amy in hospital with broken wrists; Ironing shirts; A fall of hair; Tidying away the china; An apple tree for Ruby; Ruby and fruit; The body of a little girl; Meeting the Pope; Cat night; The wedding party of animals; Night horse; Blaming the horse; Alice and the carrots; Lying in the long grass between two black Labradors; Ruby and the Labradors; Morning blackbird on the lawn; Coup de foudre |
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Winged Victory: the LouvrePicasso's tenderness; At the ballet; The rosin box; Re-reading Emma; A friendship through books; Two books, two bookmarks; Three Willow Pattern bowls; Holding hands; Consolation; Putting a line through addresses; Tonia's cemetery; Roadworks; Driving with Amy in the MG; Gold and dust; A landscape of shining leaves; Tenderness; The mountain; Perigee moon; Spring bulbs; Flying over Spain; 8 little poems about Canberra; Hay bales; The tablecloth; Oysters; An extra oyster for the Doctors; The name in the freezer; The Filipina maid makes the bed; The strangeness of purple |
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A gift of spotted tightsWearing fur; After a gastroscopy; Ukulele for a dying child; Young woman at an open casket; My mother visits me in hospital; The heart heals itself between beats; Acknowledgements; Copyright Page |
| Summary |
Annotation In Elizabeth Smithers eighteenth collection of poetry her words are as vital as ever. The poems take the everyday - mothers and daughters, cats and horses, books and bowls, slippers and shirts - and transform them into something fresh: sometimes surreal, sometimes funny, often enchanted. And throughout, the work is infected with the personality of the author: a quirky, whimsical observer of the mundane world around her, which she shows to be full of surprises. Elizabeth Smithers world is the people she knows, the places she visits, the animals she encounters. As they appear in her work they take on mysterious, sometimes surreal, qualities. Her imaginative world is charming and enchanted, peculiar, whimsical, and often very funny'- C. K. Stead W. H. Auden once defined poetry as a game of knowledge, a bringing to consciousness, by naming them, of emotions and their hidden relationships . This definition suits Smithers poetry, too, with its sophistication, its wit and humour, its playfulness, its candour, its tenderness, its exploration through simile and metaphor of the unexpected relations between things'- Peter Simpson The freshness of Elizabeths vision, her altogether metaphorical way of looking at the world, constantly surprises. Then there is the course her poems take, rising into something which hits, or is very like, the sublime. Her work is replete with a humanity that draws the reader in, moves us and stays with us, achieving what the Chinese call the meaning beyond the words'- Diana Bridge |
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New Zealand poetry -- 21st century
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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New Zealand poetry
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New Zealand poetry
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poetry.
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Poetry
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1775589420 |
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9781775589426 |
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9781775589433 |
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1775589439 |
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9781775589457 |
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1775589455 |
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