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Description

Autumn Waiata is a chapbook of sixteen poems. There are ten related elegies, set mostly on the University of Canterbury campus, that meditate on time & place, losses & beauty.

Author description

Jeffrey Paparoa Holman was born in London & grew up on the West Coast of New Zealand. His previous collections include As Big as a Father (Steele Roberts 2002), The late great Blackball bridge sonnets (Steele Roberts 2004), & a recent work of history, Best of Both Worlds: The Story of Elsdon Best and Tutakangahau (Penguin 2010). He lives in Christchurch.

Table of contents

Back to Devonport -- Elsdon best is in my eel trap -- Universal Hone -- Autumn Waiata -- And what has life taught me? -- We'll meet, Lichen ochre.

Stock Information

General Fields

• ISBN : 9780473172404
• Publisher : Cold Hub Press
• Imprint : Cold Hub Press
• Publication date : August 2010
• Dimensions : 210mm X 150mm
• Produced in : New Zealand
• Availability date : October 2010
• Product Type : books

Special Fields

• Pages : 24
• Dewey classification : 821.92
• Bind : Paperback
• Author : Jeffrey Paparoa Holman