Thicket: paperback

Awards:   Short-listed for New Zealand Post Book Awards: Poetry 2012 Shortlisted for New Zealand Post Book Awards: Poetry 2012.
Author:   Anna Jackson
Publisher:   Auckland University Press
ISBN:  

9781869404826


Pages:   56
Publication Date:   01 July 2011
Replaced By:   9781869407407
Format:   Paperback
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Awards

  • Short-listed for New Zealand Post Book Awards: Poetry 2012
  • Shortlisted for New Zealand Post Book Awards: Poetry 2012.

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In Anna Jackson's fifth collection of poetry, a rich and leafy life is closing in on the poet. Scenarios from home and work join fairytale tropes and the interruptions of literature to make a pleasingly patterned whole. Anna Jackson has always been attracted to spending time 'in a dark wood' (notably in her 2000 collection, The Long Road to Teatime), and the new book finds her walking there again, revisiting and echoing earlier explorations, but also breaking fruitful new ground. Her shimmering, multi-faceted poems are preoccupied with thickets of language and other tangles; basements and subbasements; lenses, glass sheets and 'how to see'; and the relationship between 'I' and 'you'. And after the suburban house and its basement, the poet visits the realm of academia, the zoo, a pool hall, and then takes off for sites of folktale, story or dream. Though each poem is satisfying in itself, the links and conversations between them offer other threads into the collection. Thicket is a excellent book from a poet of unease, who constantly turns her attention to the brambled path, the track less followed, the subterranean presences in everyday life.

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Author:   Anna Jackson
Publisher:   Auckland University Press
Imprint:   Auckland University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 0.10cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.300kg
ISBN:  

9781869404826


ISBN 10:   1869404823
Pages:   56
Publication Date:   01 July 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Replaced By:   9781869407407
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

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A delight to read and a goldmine for any English classroom. -- English in Aotearoa on Catullus for Children


Author Information

Poet Anna Jackson made her debut in AUP New Poets 1 and has since published four poetry collections with AUP: The Long Road to Teatime (2000), The Pastoral Kitchen (2001), Catullus for Children (2003) and The Gas Leak (2006). She lives in Wellington and teaches in the English Department at Victoria University of Wellington and is the author of Diary Poetics: Form and Style in Writers' Diaries 1915-1962 (2010) and, with Charles Ferrall, British Juvenile Fiction 1850-1950: The Age of Adolescence (2009).

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