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Certified Accessible By: National Network for Equitable Library ServiceTemps de fonctionnement: 01:03 hrsVoix de: Cheryl LawtonPublisher:RNZFB Audio, 2023
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- Author: Smither, ElizabethDate:Created2017Summary:
In Elizabeth Smither's eighteenth century collection of poetry her words are as vital as ever. The poems take the everyday - mothers and daughters, cats and horses, books and bowls, slippers and shirts - and transform them into something fresh: sometimes surreal, sometimes funny, often enchanted. And throughout, the work is infused with the personality of the author: a quirky, whimsical observer of the mundane world around her, which she shows to be full of surprises.
Contents:- My mother's house
- Miss Bowerman and the hot water bottles
- Swimming with our fathers
- Day breaks in dressing gowns
- Wedding car
- Eyebrows, toenails
- Slippers
- Amy in hospital with broken wrists
- Ironing shirts
- A fall of hair
- Tidying away the china
- An apple tree for Ruby
- Ruby and fruit
- The body of a little girl
- Meeting the Pope
- Cat night
- The wedding party of animals
- Night horse
- Blaming the horse
- Alice and the carrots
- Lying in the long grass between two black Labradors
- Ruby and the Labradors
- Morning blackbird on the lawn
- Coup de foudre
- Winged Victory: the Louvre
- Picasso's tenderness
- At the ballet
- The rosin box
- Re-reading Emma
- A friendship through books
- Two books, two bookmarks
- Three Willow Pattern bowls
- Holding hands
- Consolation
- Putting a line through addresses
- Tonia's cemetery
- Roadworks
- Driving with Amy in the MG
- Gold and dust
- A landscape if shining leaves
- Tenderness
- The mountain
- Perigee moon
- Spring bulbs
- Flying over Spain
- 8 little poems about Canberra
- Hay bales
- The tablecloth
- Oysters
- An extra oyster for the Doctors
- The name in the freezer
- The Filipina maid makes the bed
- The strangeness of purple
- A gift of spotted tights
- Wearing fur
- After gastroscopy
- Ukulele for a dying child
- Young woman at an open casket
- My mother visits me in hospital
- The heart heals itself between beats
Genre:Sujets: New Zealand poetryOriginal Publisher: Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland University PressLanguage(s): EnglishISBN: 9781869408701, 1869408705