
endings
Poems 1984-2023 selected by David Eggleton
Bruce Bisset(Author)
Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop (Publisher)
Published on 1. September 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-86942-225-7 (ISBN)
Description
Bruce Bisset was a professional performance poet in Aotearoa/New Zealand 1979-86, publishing 3 books in that time. Believing that "performance is half the art", when he stopped performing he stopped publishing. Now in his 70th year he has decided to release this collection of his subsequent work, selected by former poet laureate David Eggleton, spanning the period 1984-2023. Ordered chronologically, it is effectively an autobiography in poetical form. The title reflects the dominant themes as well as bookending his first book, "beginnings".
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Zealand
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
204 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-86942-225-7 (9781869422257)
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Persons
Bruce Bisset is a fifth-generation pakeha (New Zealander of European descent) born a dairy-farmer's son in the Waikato, brought up in Auckland City, prominent later on Waiheke Island, who now lives in Hastings, Hawke's Bay. He was a professional performance poet in his homeland from 1979-86, publishing three volumes of poetry in that time. His first collection, "beginnings" (pub. 1979) was a best-seller in New Zealand, and he performed extensively throughout NZ, from street corners to hotels, universities, clubs, schools, and major festivals such as Nambassa and Sweetwaters, in company with most of the prominent poets and musicians of the time. Bisset has also been a journalist, corporate video writer/director, blues singer, environmental activist and newsletter editor, film and video technicians' guild co-ordinator, café/venue owner/manager (twice), elected local body politician (3 terms), and newspaper columnist. Pre-Covid he was a core organiser for the A/NZ branch of Extinction Rebellion as well as performing with his five-piece band, "Bruce Bisset and the Rural Voters".