Anne French

Blue Voyage and Other Poems

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The Blue Voyage and Other Poems is a new collection by Anne French - elegiac in tone and confident in execution. A more comic initial section (by noted New Zealand regional poet 'William Butler Smith') leads into a section of thoughtful but vivid sailing poems and then a number of elegies, laments and funeral songs from French's 'black notebook'. The final section voyages to Korea and includes some loose translations of poems by modernist Korean writer Han Yong-un. In their considerations of remembrance and writerly acts, these 'translations' aptly pick up themes introduced in the book's first three parts and round off the book nicely: 'Waiti… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-77558-834-4
EAN: 9781775588344
Produktnummer: 35598962
Verlag: Auckland University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 0 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

Poet, publisher, and sailor Anne French is the author of six previous poetry collections with Auckland University Press, including All Cretans Are Liars, winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry and the PEN Award for First Book of Poetry in 1988, and Boys' Night Out, a finalist in the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. French had an extensive career in publishing with Oxford University Press before founding Te Papa Press in 1996. Later she moved into science funding. She now works as a consultant on R&D strategy and management, and is an associate at NZIER.