The Lark Quartet
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The Lark Quartet

Poems by Elizabeth Smither

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  2. English
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The Lark Quartet

Poems by Elizabeth Smither

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A lovely new collection by a leading New Zealand poet. This is among her best work, moving through a range of attentions—gardens, friends, works of art—with great charm and unexpected and quirky wit.

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Year
2013
ISBN
9781775581901
Edition
1

Contents

By the Same Author
Title Page
Acknowledgement
Dedication
Eating oranges
Borrowing a bed
North light and lip pencil
Red lipstick
Removing the subsidy on butter
A donation to the Haemophilia Society
A poem for Roseanne
My mother looking at stars
Stars through tree crowns
Tree breath and human
Apple orchard
Leaf on leaf
An arborist at work
Hearing the approach of rain
A whole day’s rain
Mignonette and roses in wind
Gins and umbrellas
Spreading mulch
Gallimaufry
Wave on a speckled sea
Storm in a little bay
Standing by the sea with Tonia
Irene’s spa
After intimate talk
Three women sharing a bowl of crÚme brûlée
At a gallery
Thomas Chambers, Niagara Falls 

Winslow Homer’s The New Novel 

The Lark Quartet
Singing hymns
Film shoot
A woman on a bus reading a poem
A television image of looters
Cycle race
A man walking in white shoes
Days without a watch
Marker ribbon in a book
The sloth
A stone armadillo
A cast iron miniature stove
Wooden tulips
A teacup with floral d...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. By the Same Author
  4. Title Page
  5. Acknowledgement
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. Eating oranges
  9. Borrowing a bed
  10. North light and lip pencil
  11. Red lipstick
  12. Removing the subsidy on butter
  13. A donation to the Haemophilia Society
  14. A poem for Roseanne
  15. My mother looking at stars
  16. Stars through tree crowns
  17. Tree breath and human
  18. Apple orchard
  19. Leaf on leaf
  20. An arborist at work
  21. Hearing the approach of rain
  22. A whole day’s rain
  23. Mignonette and roses in wind
  24. Gins and umbrellas
  25. Spreading mulch
  26. Gallimaufry
  27. Wave on a speckled sea
  28. Storm in a little bay
  29. Standing by the sea with Tonia
  30. Irene’s spa
  31. After intimate talk
  32. Three women sharing a bowl of crÚme brûlée
  33. At a gallery
  34. Thomas Chambers, Niagara Falls (Nineteenth Century American), The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
  35. Winslow Homer’s The New Novel, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts
  36. The Lark Quartet
  37. Singing hymns
  38. Film shoot
  39. A woman on a bus reading a poem
  40. A television image of looters
  41. Cycle race
  42. A man walking in white shoes
  43. Days without a watch
  44. Marker ribbon in a book
  45. The sloth
  46. A stone armadillo
  47. A cast iron miniature stove
  48. Wooden tulips
  49. A teacup with floral decoration
  50. The little graveyard
  51. From a ha-ha to a cemetery
  52. Roadside crosses
  53. On the euthanasia of a pet dog
  54. A death and a marriage in one day
  55. The announcement of a pregnancy
  56. Sarah in the second trimester
  57. Last page in a notebook
  58. Copyright