The Blue Coat (Paperback)

A wind that only the widest gardens can hold. A lipstick stain on a poem. A bee released - with recourse to a letter from the Inland Revenue Department. A grey sky like a governess, a mother dressed by her two-year-old son, a flurry of leaves behind a tram. In The Blue Coat, Elizabeth Smither examines the quotidian and the quirky for resonance, for contemplation, for verve. Here ""poetry has a place among other bodies"", but also in enclosed gardens, in Chinese restaurants, in margins and in memory - ""sometimes open and hospitable, sometimes secret, behind dark hedges"". Whimsical and tender, this latest collection demonstrates Smither's talent for illuminating the poetry in the everyday - an out-of-season daffodil, a chipped Limoges plate. She is a master of the unfolding poem, in lines that take you from a single image to the cusp of something larger. At times meditative, at times playful, even slightly subversive, this collection impresses with a surety of word, a deft touch and a polished harmony.

General

Imprint:	Auckland University Press
Country of origin:	New Zealand
Release date:	April 2013
First published:	2013
Authors:	Elizabeth Smither
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 2mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	88
ISBN-13:	978-1-86940-736-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Promotions
LSN:	1-86940-736-9
Barcode:	9781869407360

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