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    Created
    2017
    Summary:

    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
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    Original Publisher: Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland University Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781869408701, 1869408705