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The Blue Coat
Elizabeth Smither
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Description for The Blue Coat
Paperback. A wind that only the widest gardens can hold. A lipstick stain on a poem. A grey sky like a governess, a mother dressed by her two-year-old son, a flurry of leaves behind a tram. In The Blue Coat Elizabeth Smither examines the quotidian and the quirky for resonance, for contemplation, for verve. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBN; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 2. Weight in Grams: 120.
A wind that only the widest gardens can hold. A lipstick stain on a poem. A bee released – with recourse to a letter from the Inland Revenue Department. A grey sky like a governess, a mother dressed by her two-year-old son, a flurry of leaves behind a tram.
In The Blue Coat, Elizabeth Smither examines the quotidian and the quirky for resonance, for contemplation, for verve. Here ""poetry has a place among other bodies"", but also in enclosed gardens, in Chinese restaurants, in margins and in memory – ""sometimes open and hospitable, sometimes secret, behind dark hedges"".
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A wind that only the widest gardens can hold. A lipstick stain on a poem. A bee released – with recourse to a letter from the Inland Revenue Department. A grey sky like a governess, a mother dressed by her two-year-old son, a flurry of leaves behind a tram.
In The Blue Coat, Elizabeth Smither examines the quotidian and the quirky for resonance, for contemplation, for verve. Here ""poetry has a place among other bodies"", but also in enclosed gardens, in Chinese restaurants, in margins and in memory – ""sometimes open and hospitable, sometimes secret, behind dark hedges"".
... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Auckland, New Zealand
ISBN
9781869407360
SKU
V9781869407360
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About Elizabeth Smither
Distinguished writer Elizabeth Smither has published seventeen volumes of poetry, five novels and five short story collections. She was the 2001–2003 Te Mata New Zealand Poet Laureate. In 2004 she was awarded an honorary DLitt from the University of Auckland for her contribution to literature and was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM). She won ... Read more
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