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Walls to Kick and Hills to Sing From: A Comedy with Interruptions
Murray Edmond
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Description for Walls to Kick and Hills to Sing From: A Comedy with Interruptions
Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 162 x 2. Weight in Grams: 200.
Walls to Kick and Hills to Sing From: A Comedy with Interruptions is a new poetry collection from Murray Edmond. Arranged in six acts, 'Exposition', 'Complication', 'Revelation', 'Peripety', 'Catastrophe' and 'Denouement', it merrily experiments with voice and performance, including, in various forms, monologues, dialogues, choruses, songs, scene sets and storyboards. Edmond writes that 'there isn't a poem which couldn't have been otherwise / than it is', and in his poems form is aptly married to content. Language plays a starring role - 'lobal glooming', 'mobile grooming', 'focal warping', 'glottal warbling' runs a poem on global warming. A consummate director, he ... Read more
Walls to Kick and Hills to Sing From: A Comedy with Interruptions is a new poetry collection from Murray Edmond. Arranged in six acts, 'Exposition', 'Complication', 'Revelation', 'Peripety', 'Catastrophe' and 'Denouement', it merrily experiments with voice and performance, including, in various forms, monologues, dialogues, choruses, songs, scene sets and storyboards. Edmond writes that 'there isn't a poem which couldn't have been otherwise / than it is', and in his poems form is aptly married to content. Language plays a starring role - 'lobal glooming', 'mobile grooming', 'focal warping', 'glottal warbling' runs a poem on global warming. A consummate director, he ... 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
9781869404581
SKU
V9781869404581
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About Murray Edmond
Murray Edmond, poet, playwright, dramaturge, theatre director, editor and critic, was born in Hamilton in 1949. He has published four books of poems with AUP, most recently Fool Moon, a finalist in the 2005 Montana NZ Book Awards, co-edited the influential anthology Big Smoke: NZ Poems 1960-1975 (AUP, 2000), and is the editor of peer reviewed, poetry journal Ka Mate ... Read more
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