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Title: |
The Darling North |
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| By (author): |
Anne Kennedy |
| ISBN10-13: |
1869405935 : 9781869405939 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
96 |
| Weight: |
.155 Kg. |
| Published: |
Auckland University Press - May 2012 |
| List Price: |
12.49 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
Qty Available: 1 |
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| In unfolding couplets, â The Darling Northâ engages with a womanâ s past, her lover, her new landscapes, exploring the results of yearning and directional possibilities on the shores of the Hokianga. F. E. Maning and Seamus Heaney hover in the background as touchstones. â Hands Onâ reconfigures the Little Red Riding Hood, Three Little Pigs and the Gingerbread Man stories; while other poems touch on a lost wedding ring, a significant birthday, remembered hills. Finally Kennedy offers two long poems about the dislocation of migration â a loose sequence of here-and-there sonnets that deal with the upheaval of a family move from New Zealand to Hawaiâ i; and a final poem, â Hello Kitty, Goodbye Piccadillyâ , in which the change and disturbances, effort and turmoils of adjusting to â Paradiseâ move towards acceptance and belonging. Though separate and various in tone and form, these poems wave and tip their hats to one another â adding further pleasures to this sparklingly original collection by one of our most interesting writers. |
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