This fourth in AUPs New Poets series includes three very different voices. Chris Tses work draws fascinatingly on his family history and Chinese heritage. His selection, Sing Joe, includes narrative poems about his great-grandparents emigration to New Zealand and about his own childhood and his research to uncover their story. Erin Scudder writes sophisticated, dark and flavoursome poetry with close attention to the sound and shape of words. In its treatment of motive and emotion her work feels at once personal and universal, specific yet interested in archetypes and tropes. Harry Jones writes accomplished, elegant, formally adept work. He has a flair for the gorgeous lyric, but his selection, Beyond Hinuera, also has a subtle range. Together the work of these three writers feels substantial and pleasingly distinct.
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Publication Date: 01 Mar 2011
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Publication City/Country: New Zealand
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781869404741
About Chris TseErin ScudderHarry Jones
CHRIS TSE is a Wellington writer actor musician and occasional filmmaker. He studied English literature and film at Victoria University where he also completed an MA in Creative Writing. His poetry has appeared in literary magazines and he has had short stories recorded for Radio NZ. He won the 2009 NZ Chinese Association/Listener short story competition.||Native Montrealer ERIN SCUDDER moved to Wellington in 2001. She has just earned an MA (with distinction) in literature from Victoria University. She now teaches American Literature also moonlighting as a librarian while she works toward completing her first book of poetry.|HARRY JONESs first ambition was to be a painter as a schoolboy he was given lessons by Colin McCahon. He lived in England from 1974 to 1994 where he was awarded an Exhibition to read English at Cambridge. He now lives in Tauranga and publishes poems in NZ and UK poetry magazines
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