Everything Talks
Author(s): Sam Sampson
New Zealand Society of Authors Jessie McKay Best First Book Award for Poetry Winner A first collection of poetry by Auckland poet Sam Sampson. Sampson has an ear for the lilting phrase, and his poems have a gentle ebb and flow, which is often echoed visually by the way the poems are laid out upon the page. Though experimental in form, Sampson's poems are also grounded in his environment, often the West Coast of Auckland where he grew up. Karekare, the Manukau Harbour and the Waitakere Ranges all feature, but in poems that reach from ancient Egypt to 15th-century France to 19th-century Tahiti to the United States in 1963, while touching on biography, archaeology, astronomy, Sampson proves that he can handle global ideas and universal concerns.
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Winner of NZ Society of Authors Best First Book Award Poetry Category 2009.
Sam Sampson was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and grew up in Titirangi. He holds an MA in Philosophy from The University of Auckland, and for a number of years was a tutor in the University's ethnomusicology programme.
Zeroth 1. An Arena of Reflected Caches: Geographic Tongue; Swallows; Echolocations; The Future Island Nestled; An Arena of Reflected Caches; Soft Focus; 2. Mirror Mirror: Mirror Mirror; Millefiori; Streamlined Mechanics; Contraptions; Commerce; Diagram; Reel; Note to Myself; Header Tank; Godley Court; 3. Orpheus at Whatipu:Orpheus at Whatipu; The Ship Beautiful; Sea Breeze; Boats; Awhitu; Nihotupu Line; Finisterre; Decomposition; From Zion Hill; The Breaking Wave off Karekare; Ghost; Base Jumping; Sun Star; A Fishing Kite; Gentian Violet 4. Frisson:Frisson; Impending; Climbing Beans; Wishful Thinking; Milk Station; Gold; Godheads 5. The Dirty Monk: The Dirty Monk; Encompassed; La Univers Est Cra; Landscape without Monkeys; Hearsay; Nave Nave Fenua; The Egyptian; An American President; Cartoons 6. The Deep End:Nowherewhon; Somewhere; Where is There?; The Deep End; Notes.
General Fields
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- : Auckland University Press
- : Auckland University Press
- : 0.15
- : 01 June 0000
- : 210mm X 138mm X 8mm
- : New Zealand
- : books
Special Fields
- : Sam Sampson
- : Paperback
- : 821.92
- : 80
- : Poetry texts & anthologies; Poetry & poets
