The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English

The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English
Author: Jeremy Noel-Tod
Publisher:
Total Pages: 727
Release: 2013-05-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199640254

This impressive volume provides over 1,700 biographical entries on poets writing in English from 1910 to the present day, including T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Carol Ann Duffy. Authoritative and accessible, it is a must-have for students of English and creative writing, as well as for anyone with an interest in poetry.

The Best of Best New Zealand Poems

The Best of Best New Zealand Poems
Author: Bill Manhire
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2011-05-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 086473753X

Since 2000, the online anthology Best New Zealand Poems has showcased the most exciting and memorable poetry produced in this country. Here, for the first time, is a selection of this work in book form. Edited by founding publisher Bill Manhire, and writer Damien Wilkins, this anthology is an indispensable guide to the richness, strangeness, and liveliness of contemporary poetry. With over sixty poets appearing, there's classic work by some of the best-known figures in our writing, including Sam Hunt, Allen Curnow, Jenny Bornholdt, Cilla McQueen, Elizabeth Smither, and Ian Wedde; there are also compelling poems from new writers. Each poet's own note on the selection illuminates the work and takes us inside the writer’s personal workshop. The first decade of the new century comes into view as a vibrant, argumentative, restless period, with our poets unafraid of either political engagement or strong personal feeling.

Collected Poems, 1951–2006: C. K. Stead

Collected Poems, 1951–2006: C. K. Stead
Author: C. K. Stead
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Total Pages: 565
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1775580474

This collection of poetry culls Karl Stead’s most lasting and memorable works into a single volume. Drawn from previously published works though his distinguished career, from his debut collection Whether the Will is Free to his recent publication The Black River, this resource also contains 22 previously unpublished poems from his early days.

The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature

The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature
Author: Roger Robinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 632
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN:

'The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature' contains more than 1500 alphabetically arranged entries on writers, novels, plays, poetry, journals, periodicals, anthologies, literary movements and professional organizations.

Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance

Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance
Author: Jack Ross
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2007
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

This paperback and 2 CDs collects the work of 27 poets who came of age during the 1960s and 1970s, stamping their mark irrevocably on the New Zealand poetic scene and introducing new forms, new language and new freedoms. We hear the instantly recognisable, laconic but swaggering voice of Sam Hunt as he performs one of his 'road gons' and more.

Being/s in Transit

Being/s in Transit
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2021-11-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004490299

This fifth volume of ASNEL Papers covers a wide range of theoretical and thematic approaches to the topics of travelling, migration, and dislocation. All migrants are travellers, but not all travellers are migrants. Migration and the figure of the migrant have become key concepts in recent post-colonial studies. However, migration is not such a new or exceptional phenomenon. From the eighteenth century onward there have been migrations from Europe to what are now called 'post-colonial' countries, and this prepared the ground for movement back to the old but also to the new centres of Europe and elsewhere. Travel and travel experience, on the other hand, have been part of the cultural codes not only of the West and not only of imperialism. The essays in this volume look at both kinds of movement, at their intersections, and at their (dis)locating effects. They cover a wide range of topics, from early seventeenth-century travel reports, through nineteenth-century women's travel writing, to such contemporary writers as Michael Ondaatje and Janette Turner Hospital.

Selected Poems

Selected Poems
Author: Louis Johnson
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2000
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780864733504

Louis Johnson (1924-1988) published many volumes of verse over 45 years. This selection comes from all phases of his career, with reprints of many difficult to obtain works. Includes a biographical introduction and many of Johnson's own comments on the origins and inspirations of his poems. Terry Sturm is Professor of English the University of Auckland, a friend and colleague of Johnson.