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[US & CA only version]. |
| Description |
1 online resource (120 pages) |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Cover; Dedication; Title; Copyright and Acknowledgements; Contents; A Little Ahead, My Shadow; As the car flies; forget about paper; one hundred days; little eyes; te tōrea / the oystercatcher; another matariki song; the answers; te oru / the stingray; tiger moth; finding isabella; thomas who was a soldier; Unwinding the Bird; spirits bay; listening; fat buds; degli angeli; never dreaming; circadia; heartland; ngā kaitiaki / the guardians; land sea and sky; the longest night; Many Hands; The Mezzaluna Rocking; the digger and the faun; after the war; harbour lights; lomu; olive; honey meadow. |
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Dear sister annejackson's road; frederick walter; experiments (our life together); talking to the sky; a brief history of time; Some Day; earthwalker; awapuni; arrower; zeitoun; horseman; ismailia square; foot soldier; ari burnu; night fighter; reigate; bombardier; caterpillar valley; quartermaster; te henui; undertaker; kopuatama; Wind and Weather; Matapouri; Note. |
| Summary |
Michele Leggott's new book of poetry follows on from her 2009 collection, Mirabile Dictu, in its exploration of light and of gathering dark. Leggott is a poet of the lilting, shining moment and the sections here follow some of her own moments and movements, experiments and experiences? to Devonport, to Australia, to the north? as well as reverberating with the stories and histories of others. The book's final two sections take this exploration of character and narrative further as in one we see off a soldier? shadowed by Leggott? to the First World War; and in the other? set in an. |
| Subject |
New Zealand poetry.
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Children's poetry, New Zealand.
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FICTION -- General.
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Children's poetry, New Zealand. (OCoLC)fst00856456
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New Zealand poetry. (OCoLC)fst01036808
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Leggott, Michele. Heartland. New York : Auckland University Press, 2014 9781869408084 |
| ISBN |
9781775587378 (electronic bk.) |
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1775587371 (electronic bk.) |
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1306707188 (electronic bk.) |
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9781306707183 (electronic bk.) |
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