This is an impressive new collection, the sixth by this Christchurch-based poet, Villon in Millerton presents vivid lyrics anchored by three sequences. The title sequence imagines a fifteenth-century French poet, Francois Villon, fetching up in the isolated and deserted West Coast town of Millerton; another sequence brilliantly evokes the mysteries of the Indian rope trick; while a concluding group focuses on the contradictory character of the nineteenth-century missionary Samuel Marsden. The range of subjects - from the red admiral butterfly to the attack on Baghdad - and tones - from meditation to satire - along with the poet's acute ear and sharp eye make this book always unexpected and illuminating.
- ISBN13 9781869403836
- Publish Date 1 June 2007
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 March 2023
- Publish Country NZ
- Imprint Auckland University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 80
- Language English