Lifeguard
Published on 1. November 2013
978-1-77558-191-8 (ISBN)
Description
Ian Wedde's latest collection of poems are a complex mix of rhapsody, fear, and humor, and the prose explore the contradictions between life's pool-side surfaces and frightening undertows. Opening with a major new series of poems "The Lifeguard," it concludes with another long sequence, "Shadow Stands Up," in which a world of Platonic memory and tidal recurrence is observed from a window-seat in Auckland's conspicuously green-branded Link bus. Bringing together work from the past five years by one of New Zealand's most outstanding contemporary poets, this collection shows a master of the are at his thoughtful and surprising best.
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Person
Ian Wedde is a distinguished writer, critic, editor, and curator. He won the National Book Award for Fiction for his first novel, Dick Seddon's Great Dive, and the National Book Award for Poetry for Spells for Coming Out. He was made an Arts Foundation Laureate in 2006, a distinguished alumnus of the University of Auckland in 2007, Officer New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to art and literature in 2010 and, in 2011, commenced a two-year term as the New Zealand Poet Laureate.
