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The Pop-up Book of Invasions
Fiona Farrell
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Description for The Pop-up Book of Invasions
Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 169 x 9. Weight in Grams: 182.
This wonderful new collection is written out of Farrell's experience in Ireland on the Rathcoola Writer's Residency. The poems draw heavily and vividly on the landscape, history and mythology of Ireland, sharing a sense of discovery, but they also make connections with home, New Zealand, childhood. Thus a canoe in the National Museum, 'Black boat from a brown bog', recalls the waka: 'You think of yours as I think of/ mine, setting sail in their black / canoe'. The poet also remembers her Irish father, now dead, who emigrated to New Zealand and all the many migrations or 'invasions' of ... Read more
This wonderful new collection is written out of Farrell's experience in Ireland on the Rathcoola Writer's Residency. The poems draw heavily and vividly on the landscape, history and mythology of Ireland, sharing a sense of discovery, but they also make connections with home, New Zealand, childhood. Thus a canoe in the National Museum, 'Black boat from a brown bog', recalls the waka: 'You think of yours as I think of/ mine, setting sail in their black / canoe'. The poet also remembers her Irish father, now dead, who emigrated to New Zealand and all the many migrations or 'invasions' of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Auckland, New Zealand
ISBN
9781869403881
SKU
V9781869403881
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Ref
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About Fiona Farrell
FIONA FARRELL is a well-known novelist, short-story writer and poet. She lives on Banks Peninsula.
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