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Pasture and flock new and selected poems / Anna Jackson.
| Author/creator | Jackson, Anna, 1967- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2018. |
| Description | 139 pages ; 22 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part one: 'I had a dream I was a ghost': six sequences. My friendship with Mayakovsky -- The long road to teatime -- Teatime with the Timorese -- Catullus for children -- The gas leak -- from I, Clodia -- Part two: 'Time to hold on to the leash': selected poems. Micky the fox terrier at the zoo -- Zina at the zoo -- The invisibility of poets -- After the nit shampoo -- Sarah's hair -- Takahē -- Basement -- Badminton -- Giving up -- Doubling back -- Speaking as one of the billiard balls -- Salty hair -- The fish and I -- Unknown unknowns -- We were at the British Museum? -- It was an honour, John -- Margo, or Margaux -- Spring -- Envelope -- Indexing -- Ghostess -- Wondering how you see it -- Ophthalmoscope -- Seeing you -- The pretty photographer -- The pretty photographer's hallway -- The pretty photographer in the library -- The photographer's Olympics -- Amanda in the mirror -- Saoirse at the fridge -- Sabina and the chain of friendship -- Roland on the outskirts -- Evelyn, after tennis playing -- Jane Eyre -- Ishmael in the bedroom -- The proof-reader after hours -- Sylvia in the supermarket -- Afraid of falls? -- Part three: 'From just behind her eyes': new poems -- Dear Tombs -- Flammable -- Mornings are sudden -- Aline, waiting her turn -- Thank you for having me, briefly, in your chamber -- I have only to wait (after Sappho's 'Ode to Aphrodite') -- The cooking show -- Office and barnacles -- Office pastoral -- Le Corbusier -- On my way elsewhere -- Leaving the hotel room -- To my hen-flock -- Reading Horace and thinking about Susan Sontag -- God and us -- Poets know words, know routes, know ghosts -- Late swim -- James K. Baxter as the whale -- Nothing is too wonderful to be true -- Heart and slab (after Sappho's 'Some say calvary...') -- Unspoken, at breakfast -- Eleanor, on the beach -- Radishes -- Bees, so many bees -- Pasture and flock. |
| Abstract | "Uneasy nights out with dead Russian poets, dalliances with German gas fitters and emotionally fraught games of badminton are brought together for the first time, along with a brand new body of work, in this time-spanning selection of Anna Jacksons poetry. Local Gothic, suburban pastoral and answerings-back to literary icons are all enhanced by Jacksons light hand and sly humour. Pastoral yet gritty, intellectual and witty, sweet but with stings in their tails, the poems and sequences collected in Pasture and Flock are essential reading for both long term and new admirers of Jacksons slanted approach to lyric poetry"--Back cover. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018379883 |
| ISBN | 9781869408794 (paperback) |