Tigers at Awhitu
Tigers at Awhitu

Author: Sarah Broom

Publisher: Auckland University Press

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 87

ISBN-13: 1869406095

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Against a backdrop of many times and landscapes, the poems in Tigers at Awhitu , the first, luminous book by Sarah Broom, chart the drifts and tides of intimate relationships, the physical extremes of illness, the complexities of motherhood. Here a refugee family walks north on a frozen road; a solitary figure sleeps in the desert outside a fabular city; a mother watches a child's first gesture. With tough, deft attention to language and its emotional power, Sarah Broom asks us to consider our relationships with the world and with words. Hers is an unflinching and original new voice in New Zealand poetry.

Gleam
Gleam

Author: Sarah Broom

Publisher: Auckland University Press

Published: 2013-11-01

Total Pages: 71

ISBN-13: 1775580792

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In these 40 powerful new poems, Sarah Broom explores the effect of a life-threatening condition by way of the landscapes of the natural world, charting the hardest things in beautiful language. Broom's forte is in encapsulating, expressing, and making sense of strong internal feeling and turmoil through metaphor, and in Gleam, her poems bring together heightened emotion, a robust sense of the physical body, and an external landscape in controlled, sinewy language. In the title poem, she charts a radiotherapy session in both physical and metaphoric terms: &“there are avenues of light / and now there is a wide and open terrain, my brain / is a vast, hilly country.&” This impressive collection examines basic human truths with clarity and force and will open out painful, rewarding vistas for its readers.

The Severed Head and the Grafted Tongue
The Severed Head and the Grafted Tongue

Author: Patricia Palmer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1107041848

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This book explores actual and literary depictions of beheadings in sixteenth-century Ireland and addresses how violence is transcribed into art.

What the Living Do
What the Living Do

Author: Maggie Dwyer

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2018-09-27

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 152552870X

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Until the age of twelve, Georgia Lee Kay-Stern believed she was Jewish — the story of her Cree birth family had been kept secret. Now she’s living on her own and attending first year university, and with her adoptive parents on sabbatical in Costa Rica, the old questions are back. What does it mean to be Native? How could her life have been different? As Winnipeg is threatened by the flood of the century, Georgia Lee’s brutal murder sparks a tense cultural clash. Two families wish to claim her for burial. But Georgia Lee never figured out where she belonged, and now other people have to decide for her.

Contemporary British and Irish Poetry
Contemporary British and Irish Poetry

Author: Sarah Broom

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2005-10-18

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1350308765

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Sarah Broom provides an engaging, challenging and lively introduction to contemporary British and Irish poetry. The book covers work by poets from a wide range of ethnic and regional backgrounds and covers a broad range of poetic styles, including mainstream names like Seamus Heaney and Carol Ann Duffy alongside more marginal and experimental poets like Tom Raworth and Geraldine Monk. Contemporary British and Irish Poetry tackles the most compelling and contentious issues facing poetry today.

Young Knowledge
Young Knowledge

Author: Robin Hyde

Publisher: Auckland University Press

Published: 2013-11-01

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1775582450

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A full chronological record of the poems of Robin Hyde, a New Zealand journalist, novelist, dramatist, and poet active in the 1930s, is presented in this book. The 300 poems chosen show Hyde's growth as a poet and her response to the painful events of her personal life and to the political and social world around her. The poems are remarkable both for their acute observation of the physical and emotional world and for their powerful prophetic and visionary elements.

The 36 Forms
The 36 Forms

Author: Paul Lam

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780975055045

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Simple and proven methods to make tai chi accessible to everyone 225 Pages & 81 color photos An Australian family physician, Dr Lam is one of the most experienced and respected tai chi teachers in the world. He has trained over five thousand teachers using his unique teaching system based on more than 30 years' experience, the latest research relating to learning, tai chi philosophy and medical knowledge. This system, along with his teaching method, has been adopted by tai chi teachers worldwide, resulting in dramatic reductions in drop-out rates and greater student and teacher enjoyment. Within these pages you will find: * an analysis of an effective teacher. * a practical and comprehensive teaching system, illustrated with real life examples. * a treasure trove of useful teaching tools. Now revised and updated with a new section designed to guide the teacher working with people of different ages and conditions -- from people with arthritis to Parkinson's to children, pregnant women, older adults and people in the workplace.

Who Is Mary Sue?
Who Is Mary Sue?

Author: Sophie Collins

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 0571346626

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In the language of fan fiction, a 'Mary Sue' is an idealised and implausibly flawless character: a female archetype that can infuriate audiences for its perceived narcissism.Such is the setting for this brilliant and important debut by Sophie Collins. In a series of verse and prose collages, Who Is Mary Sue? exposes the presumptive politics behind writing and readership: the idea that men invent while women reflect; that a man writes of the world outside while a woman will turn to the interior.Part poetry and part reportage, at once playful and sincere, these fictive-factive miniatures deploy original writing and extant quotation in a mode of pure invention. In so doing, they lift up and lay down a revealing sequence of masks and mirrors that disturb the reflection of authority.A work of captivation and correction, this is a book that will resonate with anyone concerned with identity, shame, gender, trauma, composition and culture: everyone, in other words, who wishes to live openly and think fearlessly in the modern world. Who Is Mary Sue? is a work for our times and a question for our age: it is a handbook for all those willing to reimagine prescriptive notions of identity and selfhood.