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Young Country
Kerry Hines
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Description for Young Country
Hardcover. Num Pages: 200 pages, black and white photographs. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 638.
Young Country is a book of poetry by twenty-first-century writer Kerry Hines alongside images by nineteenth-century photographer William Williams. The wry, plainspoken but haunting poems sit alongside evocative photographs of settlement: landscapes, streetscapes, skyscapes; the escapades of a trio of flatmates; portraits of family and friends; burnt bush and rising buildings.
Whether imagined or actual, in this ‘young country; / people are an occasion’, and the book features many figures: Williams and his housemates Tom and Alex; ethnographer Elsdon Best; notorious criminals and the judges who sentenced them; the mythic creature Shellycoat who accompanied the Scottish settlers; wives, prostitutes ... Read more
Young Country is a book of poetry by twenty-first-century writer Kerry Hines alongside images by nineteenth-century photographer William Williams. The wry, plainspoken but haunting poems sit alongside evocative photographs of settlement: landscapes, streetscapes, skyscapes; the escapades of a trio of flatmates; portraits of family and friends; burnt bush and rising buildings.
Whether imagined or actual, in this ‘young country; / people are an occasion’, and the book features many figures: Williams and his housemates Tom and Alex; ethnographer Elsdon Best; notorious criminals and the judges who sentenced them; the mythic creature Shellycoat who accompanied the Scottish settlers; wives, prostitutes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Auckland University Press New Zealand
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Auckland, New Zealand
ISBN
9781869408237
SKU
V9781869408237
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Ref
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About Kerry Hines
Kerry Hines has a PhD from Victoria University (2012) for her thesis ‘After the Fact: Poems, Photographs, and Regenerating Histories’, part of which forms the basis for Young Country. She has also presented papers on her research at conferences in New Zealand, Australia and the UK, and contributed an essay on William Williams to Early New Zealand Photography: Images and ... Read more
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