The Blue Voyage and Other Poems

Fiction & Literature, Poetry
Cover of the book The Blue Voyage and Other Poems by Anne French, Auckland University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Anne French ISBN: 9781775588344
Publisher: Auckland University Press Publication: November 18, 2015
Imprint: Auckland University Press Language: English
Author: Anne French
ISBN: 9781775588344
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Publication: November 18, 2015
Imprint: Auckland University Press
Language: English

The Blue Voyage and Other Poems is a new collection by Anne French – elegiac in tone and confident in execution. A more comic initial section (by noted New Zealand regional poet ‘William Butler Smith') leads into a section of thoughtful but vivid sailing poems and then a number of elegies, laments and funeral songs from French's ‘black notebook'. The final section voyages to Korea and includes some loose translations of poems by modernist Korean writer Han Yong-un. In their considerations of remembrance and writerly acts, these ‘translations' aptly pick up themes introduced in the book's first three parts and round off the book nicely: ‘Waiting / for the ringing of the bells announcing daybreak, / I put down my brush.'

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

The Blue Voyage and Other Poems is a new collection by Anne French – elegiac in tone and confident in execution. A more comic initial section (by noted New Zealand regional poet ‘William Butler Smith') leads into a section of thoughtful but vivid sailing poems and then a number of elegies, laments and funeral songs from French's ‘black notebook'. The final section voyages to Korea and includes some loose translations of poems by modernist Korean writer Han Yong-un. In their considerations of remembrance and writerly acts, these ‘translations' aptly pick up themes introduced in the book's first three parts and round off the book nicely: ‘Waiting / for the ringing of the bells announcing daybreak, / I put down my brush.'

More books from Auckland University Press

Cover of the book Heaphy by Anne French
Cover of the book Letters from Gallipoli by Anne French
Cover of the book He Pitopito Korero no te Perehi Maori by Anne French
Cover of the book A Voice for Mothers by Anne French
Cover of the book The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict by Anne French
Cover of the book Innovation and Independence by Anne French
Cover of the book Cookhouse by Anne French
Cover of the book From the Word Go by Anne French
Cover of the book Lost and Gone Away by Anne French
Cover of the book Tahuhu Korero by Anne French
Cover of the book The Treaty of Waitangi Companion by Anne French
Cover of the book The Commonplace Book by Anne French
Cover of the book Bloomsbury South by Anne French
Cover of the book Friendly Fire by Anne French
Cover of the book Voters' Victory by Anne French
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy