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A Riderless Horse

SKU: 9781869409777
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  • Author:
    Tim Uppeerton
  • ISBN:
    9781869409777
  • Publication Date:
    August 2022
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    68
  • Binding:
    Paperback
  • Publisher:
    Auckland University Press
  • Country of Publication:
    New Zealand
A Riderless Horse
A Riderless Horse

A Riderless Horse

SKU: 9781869409777
Regular price $24.99
Unit price
per
  • Author:
    Tim Uppeerton
  • ISBN:
    9781869409777
  • Publication Date:
    August 2022
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    68
  • Binding:
    Paperback
  • Publisher:
    Auckland University Press
  • Country of Publication:
    New Zealand

Description

I was Dick. I teased Anne and George. I was Edmund, betrayed my friends for a sweet. Something rotten in me. - from 'My childhood' In his third poetry collection, award-winning poet Tim Upperton takes us to the end of the driveway, over the Manawatu - twisting like an eel - and on to Topeka and Paris. These are poems of acid wit ('I have been to Paris / and apart from the architecture / and the food and some very fine cemeteries / and of course the language / it's quite like Palmerston North'), intimations of loss ('The wrong life cannot be lived rightly. I should know') and unexpected resolution ('like pollen, / like grace so available nobody wanted it'). Unpredictable and restive, A Riderless Horse stands in the everyday and then runs with it.

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  • I was Dick. I teased Anne and George. I was Edmund, betrayed my friends for a sweet. Something rotten in me. - from 'My childhood' In his third poetry collection, award-winning poet Tim Upperton takes us to the end of the driveway, over the Manawatu - twisting like an eel - and on to Topeka and Paris. These are poems of acid wit ('I have been to Paris / and apart from the architecture / and the food and some very fine cemeteries / and of course the language / it's quite like Palmerston North'), intimations of loss ('The wrong life cannot be lived rightly. I should know') and unexpected resolution ('like pollen, / like grace so available nobody wanted it'). Unpredictable and restive, A Riderless Horse stands in the everyday and then runs with it.

I was Dick. I teased Anne and George. I was Edmund, betrayed my friends for a sweet. Something rotten in me. - from 'My childhood' In his third poetry collection, award-winning poet Tim Upperton takes us to the end of the driveway, over the Manawatu - twisting like an eel - and on to Topeka and Paris. These are poems of acid wit ('I have been to Paris / and apart from the architecture / and the food and some very fine cemeteries / and of course the language / it's quite like Palmerston North'), intimations of loss ('The wrong life cannot be lived rightly. I should know') and unexpected resolution ('like pollen, / like grace so available nobody wanted it'). Unpredictable and restive, A Riderless Horse stands in the everyday and then runs with it.