The Year of Adverbs Paperback / softback
by Elizabeth Smither
Paperback / softback
Description
Eight years after her last, prize-winning, collection with AUP, ""The Lark Quartet"", this is a new book of poems from a major poet.
It is full of the stuff of daily life, fizzing with personalities, alive with incidents and travelling from New Plymouth to Paris and back again.
There is a wedding, a birth, several deaths and funerals as well as glimpses of Walter Raleigh, Fats Waller, Elizabeth Bennet, a car, a bicycle and a horse playing an accordion.
Smither's eye for unexpected likenesses, her verbal playfulness, her distinctive wit and style are everywhere apparent.
The book ends with a delightful sequence of 'little Parisian poems' revelling in small details of that city and finishing, 'Au revoir, bonne journee'.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:64 pages
- Publisher:Auckland University Press
- Publication Date:01/08/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9781869403942
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:64 pages
- Publisher:Auckland University Press
- Publication Date:01/08/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9781869403942