- 68 pages
- English
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About this book
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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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 crème 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
- Cover
- Half-title
- By the Same Author
- Title Page
- Acknowledgement
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- 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 crème brûlée
- At a gallery
- Thomas Chambers, Niagara Falls (Nineteenth Century American), The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
- Winslow Homer’s The New Novel, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts
- 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 decoration
- The little graveyard
- From a ha-ha to a cemetery
- Roadside crosses
- On the euthanasia of a pet dog
- A death and a marriage in one day
- The announcement of a pregnancy
- Sarah in the second trimester
- Last page in a notebook
- Copyright
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