Time of the Icebergs
Poems by David Eggleton
Published on 11. October 2019
78 pages
978-1-988531-87-8 (ISBN)
Description
Much of Time of the Icebergs was written while David Eggleton was a Writer-in-Residence at the Michael King Writers Centre in Auckland in 2009. These are poems about the world we live in, tracing a dystopian present 'hurtling globalisation's highway' where 'Google tells Google that Google saves'. As he says 'I think of it as a collection for browsing and discovering things: soundscapes, seascapes, landscapes, contemporary politics and contemporary people, histories, traditions, and other things besides.'
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Birds
- Time of the Icebergs
- Warming
- Driverless Ute
- On Beauty
- Visions of Michael Joseph Savage
- The Five Cent Coin
- Graveyard School
- Ode to the Beercrate
- Barnes Dance, Queen Street, Auckland
- Elvis and the Vulcans
- Varieties of Religious Experience
- Not Fit For Human Consumption
- Burn Rate
- Red Meat Roar
- Song of the Market Actor
- Kate Winslet Promotes a Credit Card
- Band Rehearsal
- Beer Cans
- Spent Tube
- The Zero
- Traffic Checkpoint
- Christchurch Gothic
- Night Patrol in a Psychic Shellhole
- Belief in the Pacific
- Suva Hibiscus
- Between Viti Levu and Tongatapu
- Nuku'alofa
- Drowned Volcano
- Steve Irwin Way
- Win Seven Days in Sydney
- Lines at Wharf's End
- A Nation's State
- How to Big Yourself Up
- Bards of Paekakariki
- Dada Dunedin
- New Chants of Ngati Katoa
- Jailbird at Momona Airport
- Soundings
- At Macraes Flat
- Koauau
- Aotearoa Considered as a Scale Model
- Landscape for Breakfast
- The Harbour
- Summer Hail
- Winter, She Said
- Cricketers of the Eighties
- The Tall Man
- Where the Big Rivers Go
- Paua
- Tarawhirimatea, God of Winds, Visits the Province of O
- Matariki from Takarunga, Devonport
- Winebar Waiata
- Kaiwhakaani, the Ventriloquist
- Taranaki Bitter
- Heraldry
- Twenty Second Century
- Notes on Poems
- Acknowledgements
- Index of Poems
