The Commonplace Odes
Published on 1. July 2001
60 pages
978-1-77558-175-8 (ISBN)
Description
A strong new collection from an important poet, his first in seven years. It draws inspiration from the odes of Horace (and Keats), shows a new reflective and sober mood, but also evokes the rich world of the senses and the pleasures of the moment.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Product notice
Windows
File size
0,10 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-77558-175-8 (9781775581758)
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01/2001
Auckland University Press
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Person
Ian Wedde is the author of fifteen collections of poetry, six novels, two collections of essays, a collection of short stories, a monograph on the artist Bill Culbert and several art catalogues. He has also been co-editor of two poetry anthologies. His own work has been widely anthologised, and has appeared in journals nationally and internationally. In 2010 he was awarded an ONZM in the Queen's Birthday Honours, and in 2011 was made New Zealand Poet Laureate.
Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Epode: a conversation
- Book 1
- 1.1 To the Muse
- 1.2 To the Cookbook
- 1.3 To Bill Culbert and Ralph Hotere: Art Noir
- 1.4 To my twin brother
- 1.5 To Donna's young dogs
- Book 2
- 2.1 To my mirror
- 2.2 To Leone
- 2.3 To Leone II
- 2.4 To Leone III
- 2.5 To the millennium
- Epistle to a Virtuous Lieutenant
- Book 3
- 3.1 To art and praxis
- 3.2 To utopias
- 3.3 To Peter McLeavey
- 3.4 To Milan Mrkusich
- 3.5 To the Korean pug dog
- Book 4
- 4.1 To the tin trunk of images
- 4.2 To death
- 4.3 To the pulao
- 4.4 To the monsoon
- 4.5 To my sons
- Epistle to John Dickson
- Book 5
- 5.1 To Taranaki
- 5.2 To Ernst Dieffenbach
- 5.3 To beauty
- 5.4 To Mount Victoria
- 5.5 To Autumn
- Carmen saeculare: for Carol and Abe
- Dedication & Acknowledgements
