Tendering
New Poems
Published on 1. November 2013
52 pages
978-1-77558-628-9 (ISBN)
Description
Steeped in the brilliance of the banal and the daily splendours of language, Wedde presents a beautifully controlled and ordered sequence of verse in Tendering: New Poems. The book was written, he says, 'in the ghostly presence of my great grandfather Heinrich Augustus Wedde, the last ship-rig pilot on Wellington harbour'. Powerful visions of ships, the sea and of Pacific voyages of exploration pervade the collection, as does that mean city to where the ships return home.
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Content
- Cover
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright
- Contents
- 1
- The Relocation of Railway Hut 49
- The Marathon Swimmers - Short Circuit (tuki waka)
- 2: The Fall in America - letters from paradise
- 3
- Imperial Botanists
- Privateer
- Cruise
- Barbary Coast
- Mutiny on the Bounty
- The Good News
- Hawsers Hauled Taut
