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Field Notes
Paperback Edition: 1
Every day we find ourselves in many spaces green fields, force fields, playing fields, battlefields, left field or right field where the ground rules differ and its important to stay aware of the differences. Likewise, these poems follow various rules double dactyls,
sonnets, ballads, haiku dragged out of word clouds, ghazals, riffs on particular obsessions, homophonic word games, serious observations disguised as humour (and vice versa). They are written from a joy in words and in a hope that they might be useful notes to our own fields of vision.
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Mary Cresswell began her career as a poet after an earlier career as technical writer and natural-history editor. She came to New Zealand from Los Angeles in 1970, spent many years doing freelance work in Wellington, and now lives on the Kapiti Coast.
Featured in the 11 September 2017 New Zealand / Pasifika Newsletter.
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Pages : 68
Publisher : Makaro Press
Publication date : 2017-07-23
Subjects: Fiction, NZ Poetry, Poetry, NZ Poetry By Individual Poets, Poetry By Individual Poets