This City circles the globe from Florence to Palmerston North but the resulting volume is far more than so-called armchair travel. Topography and public space are a preoccupation (buses and trains, roads and houses, even Google Earth’s Street View all get a mention), but it is her evocation of the transient grounded in these spaces – snippets overheard on an Italian strada, scenes on a bus on Moxham Ave, imaginings of lives from long ago (Jane Austen, Emily Dickenson) – that leaves a taut and exciting impression of lives lived here, in this place, in This City.
- ISBN10 187757810X
- ISBN13 9781877578106
- Publish Date 1 January 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country NZ
- Imprint Otago University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 64
- Language English