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Halcyon Ghosts
Sam Sampson
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Description for Halcyon Ghosts
Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 165 x 8. Weight in Grams: 159.
Everything Talks (2008), Sam Sampson’s first collection of poetry, won Best First Poetry Book at the New Zealand Book Awards in 2009. Halcyon Ghosts, his second collection, continues an experimental exploration of language and– bookended as it is between poems for his grandmother and his daughter – extends a heartfelt concern towards human frailty and mortality, ecological fragility and transience.
There are poems here that in form follow the flight of birds; erasure poems about extinct New Zealand species; poems that break apart and bounce off poems by Keats and Dylan Thomas; a twanging cowboy poem; and a poem ... Read more
Everything Talks (2008), Sam Sampson’s first collection of poetry, won Best First Poetry Book at the New Zealand Book Awards in 2009. Halcyon Ghosts, his second collection, continues an experimental exploration of language and– bookended as it is between poems for his grandmother and his daughter – extends a heartfelt concern towards human frailty and mortality, ecological fragility and transience.
There are poems here that in form follow the flight of birds; erasure poems about extinct New Zealand species; poems that break apart and bounce off poems by Keats and Dylan Thomas; a twanging cowboy poem; and a poem ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Auckland, New Zealand
ISBN
9781869408169
SKU
V9781869408169
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-3
About Sam Sampson
Sam Sampson was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and grew up in Titirangi. He has an MA in Philosophy from the University of Auckland and has taught in the University’s ethnomusicology programme. Sampson’s poetry has been widely published in journals and chapbooks and his first collection with Auckland University Press, Everything Talks, won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book ... Read more
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