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Good Business
Ian Wedde
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Description for Good Business
Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 100 x 100 x 10. Weight in Grams: 200.
Ian Wedde's new poetry collection, his fourteenth, finds him still in business. At the heart of the book is the stunning 'Good Business' sequence, at once an ode to walking the side-streets of central Wellington and an elegy for the poet's father. Quietly hilarious, the poems are titled after Wellington businesses and institutions - Tony's Tyre Service, Metalworx Engineering, Wellington Scrap Metal, the KFC on the corner of Pirie Street and C O Products Ltd. Gradually, though, Wedde's jaunty and self-deprecating tone becomes more serious and elegiac. Other sequences include 'Seven Dreams' and the lyrical but mordant 'Arriving Blind', in ... Read more
Ian Wedde's new poetry collection, his fourteenth, finds him still in business. At the heart of the book is the stunning 'Good Business' sequence, at once an ode to walking the side-streets of central Wellington and an elegy for the poet's father. Quietly hilarious, the poems are titled after Wellington businesses and institutions - Tony's Tyre Service, Metalworx Engineering, Wellington Scrap Metal, the KFC on the corner of Pirie Street and C O Products Ltd. Gradually, though, Wedde's jaunty and self-deprecating tone becomes more serious and elegiac. Other sequences include 'Seven Dreams' and the lyrical but mordant 'Arriving Blind', in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
72
Place of Publication
Auckland, New Zealand
ISBN
9781869404420
SKU
V9781869404420
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-3
About Ian Wedde
Ian Wedde, poet, fiction writer, critic and art curator is the author of 13 previous collections of poems, three novels, short stories, essays and criticism, and the editor of several anthologies. He won the Book Award for Fiction for his first novel and the NZ Book Award for Poetry for Spells for Coming Out (AUP). He was the Robert ... Read more
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