Combining ideas, information, and language from a broad range of sources, and transforming them into lines that are both deliberately prosaic and mysteriously musical, this collection of 60 decasyllabic sonnets are both formally rigorous and bracingly antipoetic. From the opening evocation of a high-wire act through highly ironic explorations of ideas of literary immortality, to a ceremony of "at homeness" in Bolton Street Cemetery, this book traces a fascinating arc while introducing a striking new voice to poetry.
- ISBN13 9780864735294
- Publish Date 5 May 2006
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 November 2017
- Publish Country NZ
- Imprint Victoria University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 64
- Language English