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One of New Zealand's leading poets, Elizabeth Smither has published many collections and has won the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry. Her poems are characteristically slim, so the substantial selection of her work gathered in The Tudor Style has a striking effect. As Bill Manhire says, Smither's poems 'wave to one another, open doors and climb through windows'. This subtle and witty interconnectedness is a distinctive quality in her work. The poems show a delight in image, epigram and unexpected anecdotes. These swift darting poems return to themes such as women friends, gardens, figures of legend and story, religious experience and conversations. They form a striking and original whole, revealing Smither as a distinguished poet.
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Contents
Change of name
Mission Impossible
The Feast of All Saints
The child nuns
A verse letter to Tonia
The grave of Armitage Brown, the friend of Keats
Goodbye to England
The red brick quad
The portrait
Rose against bamboo
The Tudor style
Fr Anselm Williams and Br Leander Neville ...
The family name
Visiting Juliet Street
The smile of the sweet-stall boy
The lions
Temptations of St Antony by his housekeeper
Iago before the racking
The death of Iago
A reader’s pleasure
Casanova answers a letter
Casanova’s ankle
Casanova’s equipment box
Casanova and le travel
Ignatius’s birthday
The terrapin
Reading Galway Kinnell
Swimming
The meeting of ocean and air
Swimming in a shoal of little fish
The safe beach
Swimming with the dead woman
I think Joan Didion has died
Wise Boswell
A weekend in the country
Brutal pruning of a camellia tree
A white camellia
Sputnik and star
A skyful of stars
Wave over rock
Finding the tiger skeleton
Daughter rescued by a spider during mass
Crucifer, thurifer
First speech lesson
Shakespeare virgins
Behind the mind of a good cliché
Plots in a school garden
Miss Darwin and the rosemary bush
A costume from the museum
Elizabeth Bennet’s crossing fields coals of fire trick
Nights spent with women
Commission from an aunt nun
St Paul’s kind of love
A quick look into Catullus
La ligne donnée
The O in Shakespeare explained
The Veronica’s veil technique
Winter’s natural position
In the second-hand clothes shop
To a small dog which will grow into a large
Hiring a Monet from the public library
Professor Musgrove’s canary
The Creative Writing Course faces the sonnet
The matter of angels on a pin
A question of gravity
Margo lecturing on death
To my father on his burial
Finger to finger
A reading from St Paul of seeds
Mourning garb
Horatio I liked better
Above you with flowers
Grave talk
Stubble fields
Punk girl sketching the Parthenon frieze
A cortège of daughters
Miriam’s wedding dress
My mother’s black dogs
Violets...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Contents
- Change of name
- Mission Impossible
- The Feast of All Saints
- The child nuns
- A verse letter to Tonia
- The grave of Armitage Brown, the friend of Keats
- Goodbye to England
- The red brick quad
- The portrait
- Rose against bamboo
- The Tudor style
- Fr Anselm Williams and Br Leander Neville ...
- The family name
- Visiting Juliet Street
- The smile of the sweet-stall boy
- The lions
- Temptations of St Antony by his housekeeper
- Iago before the racking
- The death of Iago
- A reader’s pleasure
- Casanova answers a letter
- Casanova’s ankle
- Casanova’s equipment box
- Casanova and le travel
- Ignatius’s birthday
- The terrapin
- Reading Galway Kinnell
- Swimming
- I think Joan Didion has died
- Wise Boswell
- A weekend in the country
- Brutal pruning of a camellia tree
- A white camellia
- Sputnik and star
- A skyful of stars
- Wave over rock
- Finding the tiger skeleton
- Daughter rescued by a spider during mass
- Crucifer, thurifer
- First speech lesson
- Shakespeare virgins
- Behind the mind of a good cliché
- Plots in a school garden
- Miss Darwin and the rosemary bush
- A costume from the museum
- Elizabeth Bennet’s crossing fields coals of fire trick
- Nights spent with women
- Commission from an aunt nun
- St Paul’s kind of love
- A quick look into Catullus
- La ligne donnée
- The O in Shakespeare explained
- The Veronica’s veil technique
- Winter’s natural position
- In the second-hand clothes shop
- To a small dog which will grow into a large
- Hiring a Monet from the public library
- Professor Musgrove’s canary
- The Creative Writing Course faces the sonnet
- The matter of angels on a pin
- A question of gravity
- Margo lecturing on death
- To my father on his burial
- Finger to finger
- A reading from St Paul of seeds
- Mourning garb
- Horatio I liked better
- Above you with flowers
- Grave talk
- Stubble fields
- Punk girl sketching the Parthenon frieze
- A cortège of daughters
- Miriam’s wedding dress
- My mother’s black dogs
- Violets and camellias
- Saints’ names
- A book of Louisiana plantation houses
- The race meeting
- A small seascape in oils
- 7 little poems about Canada
- Nine postcards on a wall
- Error on a quiz programme
- The muse (for women poets)
- The French translation
- Listening to Handel’s Water Music
- A pattern of marching
- Pansies
- A week of physiotherapy
- To Joseph, in hospital
- Two useful inventions
- The forecast for night
- Fallow field
- The wind brings up the rain
- Heights
- Kept awake by a party
- A little town, at night, from the air
- Rhyme, unrhyme
- A small potato crop
- Maltreating a tortoise
- Re-reading Stephen Spender
- Eating chocolates
- The servants’ quarters in Queen Mary’s doll’s house
- Choosing fabric for a chair
- Putting one’s head in a blossoming tree
- A view over trees
- Two cemeteries from the airport shuttle
- A small ordered garden on a disordered planet
- Jennifer’s wedding
- Time, when you write
- The ha-ha
- A flight of starlings
- Wild trout
- The sea question
- The butterfly girl
- Here come the clouds
- Effleurage
- Backcover