Dandy Bogan: Selected Poems - Couverture souple

Ascroft, Nick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1911052039 ISBN 13 : 9781911052036

Editeur : Boatwhistle Books, 2018

Synopsis

Dandy Bogan brings one of New Zealand's most distinctive poets to the rest of the world for the first time. Nick Ascroft's poems display a familiarity with the furthest reaches of the Scrabble dictionary, and even somewhat beyond. This logophilia evinces a fascination not merely with language but with the workings of the human mind. As the poems range across a dazzling variety of subject matter, Ascroft's abiding interest and concern is what it means to be human. Who are we? How did we get here? And what the fuck do we do now? The heart of this selection draws on Ascroft's three full collections published in New Zealand. Bookending this are selections of newer and older poems, tracing the development over a quarter of a century of a unique poetic talent.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nick Ascroft grew up in the south of New Zealand's South Island. You can't get much souther than that. In the mid-1990s he attained an honours degree in linguistics, as well as a minor student radio hit as a member of Squid Christmas. Since then he has spent two spells in the UK, working in publishing, and he now lives with his wife, son and cat in Wellington, New Zealand, where he works as an editor for a government department. In addition to his three collections of poems published in New Zealand, Nick has published a science-fiction novel, As Long as Rain, Beet Box Books, 2018, as well as the definitive guide to playing 5-a-side football, How to Win at 5-a-Side, Bloomsbury, 2016.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Boatwhistle Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1911052039
• ISBN 13: 9781911052036
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible