The Presence of Love: Poems Selected and New

The Presence of Love is a collection of poems by a UK-born Californian Professor and poet, who has been writing since the 1960s. The poems are drawn from published material from the past 40 years in periodicals, anthologies and from unpublished works. Written in a mixture of verse styles, Duffetts mode shows a tendency for the sonnet and the shorter lyric, with philosophical, scholarly, spiritual and metaphysical concerns for the natural world and the human condition.

The book is edited by Wellington writer and literary scholar Mark Pirie and follows on from the feature of Michael Duffetts work in broadsheet: new new zealand poetry in 2017. The author once visited New Zealand in 1979 on a lecturing tour and the publication continues Duffetts long-term association with the country. Also included is a Foreword by Duffett and an Appendix detailing his 1979 visit along with a number of poems relating to the New Zealand poets Allen Curnow, C K Stead, Denis Glover and K.O. Arvidson.

Featured in the 30 April 2019 New Zealand newsletter.
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