Otherwise
Published on 1. January 2015
64 pages
978-1-84777-500-9 (ISBN)
Description
Shortlisted for the 2017 Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize.
Shortlisted for the 2016 Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full Collection.
The poems in this first collection by New Zealand poet John Dennison are concerned, above all, with love, and with the strange, unlooked-for manner of its appearances among us. Marked by emotional acuity and formal deftness, Otherwise draws us into confrontations with our equivocal and finite nature. The book includes, among other elegies, a moving sequence for Seamus Heaney. Here too, because 'some things bear repeating', are moments of turning, of grace and our refusals. This is a moving and thought-provoking collection from an assured new voice.
Shortlisted for the 2016 Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full Collection.
The poems in this first collection by New Zealand poet John Dennison are concerned, above all, with love, and with the strange, unlooked-for manner of its appearances among us. Marked by emotional acuity and formal deftness, Otherwise draws us into confrontations with our equivocal and finite nature. The book includes, among other elegies, a moving sequence for Seamus Heaney. Here too, because 'some things bear repeating', are moments of turning, of grace and our refusals. This is a moving and thought-provoking collection from an assured new voice.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Carcanet Press Ltd
File size
0,35 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84777-500-9 (9781847775009)
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John Dennison was born in Sydney in 1978. He grew up in Tawa, New Zealand and studied English literature at Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Otago. Having recently completed a PhD at the University of St Andrews, he now lives with his family in Wellington.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Errata
- Crookes' Radiometer
- Lone Kauri (reprise)
- Northwards
- The Call
- To Keep Warm Inside
- The Garden
- Nocturne
- Clarities
- Sleepers
- Promissory
- Tawa
- Pitched
- Psalm
- Source to Sea
- Watermarks
- Soaked
- Blackbird
- Catechesis, St Andrews
- Triptych
- I Grace Note 17 June 2013
- II Postcard James Nairn, Wellington Harbour, 1894
- III Touch and Go
- Fallen Oak
- To a Cousin
- Reed
- Crossing
- The Manner of Your Leaving
- The House was Full
- A Brief History of the Sign
- House Concert in the Shadowlands
- The Immanent Frame
- After Geering
- On Climate Change
- Ecce
- Seeing it Through
- There's One Straight Out of the Box
- This Just One Thing
- The Extra Mile
- About the Author
- Copyright
