The Blue Voyage and Other Poems
written by Anne French, 1956- (Auckland, Auckland Region: Auckland University Press, 2015, originally published 2015), 68 page(s)
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- Abstract / Summary
- The tide is making; the breeze has turnedaround the point, the lark singsin the blue air. Nothing staysthe same. Everything is a variationof the theme that goes on forever. The Blue Voyage and Other Poems is a new collection by Anne French – elegiac in tone and confident in execution. A more comic initial section (by noted New Zealand regional poet ‘William Butler Smith’) leads into a section of thoughtful but vivid sailing poems and then a number of elegies, laments and funeral songs from French’s ‘black notebook’. The final section voyages to Korea and includes some loose translations of poems by modernist Korean writer Han Yong-un. In their considerations of remembrance and writerly acts, these ‘translations’ aptly pick up themes introduced in the book’s first three parts and round off the book nicely: ‘Waiting / for the ringing of the bells announcing daybreak, / I put down my brush.’
- Field of Interest
- Literature
- Author
- Anne French, 1956-
- Copyright Message
- Copyright © by Anne French, 2015. Licensed for Australasian Literature Online by permission of Auckland University Press.
- Content Type
- Poetry
- Duration
- 0 sec
- Format
- Text
- Sub Genre
- Poetry
- Original Publication Date
- 2015
- Page Count
- 68
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Publisher
- Auckland University Press
- Place Published / Released
- Auckland, Auckland Region
- Subject
- Literature, Literature & Language, Poetry, Poesía, Poesia
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Poesía, Poesia