Getting It Right: Poems 1968-2015 - Couverture souple

Roddick, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1927322650 ISBN 13 : 9781927322659

Editeur : Otago University Press, 2016

Synopsis

After establishing a poetic presence on the literary scene in the early 1960s, Dunedin s Alan Roddick published his first collection, The Eye Corrects: Poems 1955 1965 in 1967. A mere 49 years later comes the sequel, Getting it Right . Poet C K Stead writes in Shelf Life (AUP, 2016) that he has always been a great admirer of the economy and the quiet, sharp wit of [Roddick s] writing. Alan Roddick is a cool poet, a temperament that seems reserved, controlled, decent, funny and intelligent; a craftsman not a showman, with a fine musical ear, whose work is dependable and of the highest order. And as well as witty and clever work, there are poems that catch moments of deep feeling; and equally of exhilaration, such as the ten-year-old Alan standing up on the seat, his head through the sunroof of his father s car that is cruising downhill, pushing 40 with the engine off to save petrol, drunk with the scent of heather and whin / that airy silence . Alan Roddick is writing as well as any New Zealand poet currently at work on the scene. It is wonderful to have him back something to celebrate!

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Alan Roddick published his last book of poetry, The Eye Corrects: Poems 1955- 1965 (Blackwood & Janet Paul), in 1967. He has also written a monograph on Allen Curnow, and, as the literary executor for Charles Brasch, compiled and edited three volumes of Brasch's verse, the latest being Charles Brasch: Selected Poems (OUP, 2015).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Otago University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1927322650
• ISBN 13: 9781927322659
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 100
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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