Title: Mr Maui's monologues /
Authors: Bland, Peter, 1934-; Bland, Carl.
Publisher: Steele Roberts Publishers,
Year: 2008
Subjects: New Zealand Poetry.
Abstract: In this beautifully illustrated collection Peter Bland's use of the dramatic monologue and his mastery of everyday speech show him to be as moving, humorous, and insightful as ever.
Contents: Pt. 1. Mr Maui at home with the Death Goddess. Mr Maui distrusts togetherness. Mr Maui collects tribal masks. Mr Maui builds a new office block. Mr Maui at Buckingham Palace. Mr Maui at the Marbella Beach Club. Mr Maui sees God in a summer garden. Mr Maui on the way to a the film studio. Mr Maui, increasingly childlike.... Mr Maui nods off. Mr Maui loses the plot. Mr Maui in old age. Mr Maui among the post-modernists. Mr Maui turns to Vivaldi. Mr Maui looks back. Mr Maui at a loss for words. Mr Maui and the missionaries. Mr Maui tries to keep fit. Mr Maui goes global. Far off in a foreign city.... What Mr Maui overheard at the border.... Mr Maui returns to the Death Goddess. Mr Maui at the Seaview Rest Home -- Pt. 2. Mushroom gathering. The 1929 Essex Six. At the sea's edge. Meeting McCahon -- Auckland 1968. The bay. Pioneers. Gathering places. The shaggy rats. Early -- Pt. 3. The other place. Seaside donkeys.... Comic-book heroes. The station. Incident in Imperial Park. Ghosts. Working the scrapbook. Soliloquy in the Seaside Gardens. From A Worthing Journal -- Pt. 4. The Pilgrim bug. The voyage again. Small changes in Wonderland. Near carefree, Arizona. The somewhere else club. A moment in time. Black cherries. Leaving Barcelona. Some Rembrandt etchings. Journeys, palaces and a hut among pines. Life on a Chinese vase. Let's talk about the poem. Dreams of flying. Honouring the master. Waiting.