
Sol
Andrew Johnston(Author)
Arc Publications (Publisher)
Published on 28. May 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
98 pages
978-1-904614-74-6 (ISBN)
Description
Playing on the connections between solidarity, solitude, solace and consolation, "Sol" illuminates with humour and curiosity the ways we link language, loss, history and memory. At the heart of this book are two major poems. "The Sunflower", an elegy for the poet's father, is an extended meditation on death, family and religious faith. "Les Baillessats" is a relaxed, sun-filled poem for the poet's newborn son.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Lancs
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-904614-74-6 (9781904614746)
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Person
Andrew Johnston is the author of Birds of Europe (2000), the Open Window (1990), The Sounds (1996) and How to Talk (1993), which won the 1994 New Zealand Book Award for Poetry and the 1994 Jessie Makcay Best First Book Award. In 1995, he was New Zealand's representative at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program.Since 1997, he has lived in France, where he works as an editor for the International Herald Tribune. He also edits The Page, an online digest of some of the Web's best poems and essays.In 2007 he was the J. D. Stout Fellow at Victoria University, Wellington, writing a book about contemporary New Zealand poetry.
Content
I: Sol ,Bonjour la France, Hypermarket , Arch,The Days, Three White Doves, The Opinion Page, The Magazines, Heatwave, The Cyclist , Les Baillessats, Mauve. II: The Sunflower. III: Visit, Aitche, Her Eyes, Great Aunt, Fire Boy, Koromiko, Z'habitants, So, Jet Lag, Roundabout. IV: Romance Daylight Time: 1. Made in Paris, 2. Glacier, 3. Metropolitan, 4. The Flow, 5. Plaster, 6. Sniff, 7. Platform Man, 8. Romance Daylight Time. V: The Present, Robins, In the Cemetery, The Orders of Night, Lucy, Poppy, Splinters, Of Tone, If Mauve. Notes. Biographical note.