The Night We Ate The Baby
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BK6
NZ$20.00
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SHORTLISTED for OCKHAM NZ Book Awards 2016
Book 1 of the Kete Series Poetry Collection 2014
Tim roams widely in The Night we Ate the Baby, finding ugliness in beauty as well as beauty in ugliness. Reverence and disgust, violence and tenderness, longing and regret commingle in poems set in a despoiled Arcadia, where ‘the apple-trees vomit blossom’.
LISTEN to a sample poem from the book.
‘These wilfully, calmly disagreeable poems have tenderness and courage at their heart. Both bleak and hilarious, they perturb so deeply that they comfort. The speaker of these poems is often trapped, but from inside his predicament he speaks freely. He scrutinises his subject-a film, a phrase, a loss, a terrible life-giving meal-with a razor-like eye, taking us down with him then giving us solace. I am both glad and fearful that I will never stop reading this book.’
~ Ashleigh Young, 2014
Size: 210mm x 148mm x 7mm (A5)
ISBN: 978-0-473-28839-6
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~ Ashleigh Young, 2014
Size: 210mm x 148mm x 7mm (A5)
ISBN: 978-0-473-28839-6
BOOK TRADE SALES & DISTRIBUTION: Please email us to be advised of our trade sale contacts
