Five o'clock shadows
By: Richard Langston
Publisher: The Cuba Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Wellington, Aotearoa, New Zealand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
ISBN-13: 9781988595306
Copyright date: 2020
Description: "Poems that return over and over to the land - an offering to the country of Richard's bones and of his heart. From a longdrop that demands binoculars to Caberfeidh in the Catlins where his father picked plums from the passing train, Richard Langston writes poems that return over and over to the land. Born to a Lebanese immigrant family in Dunedin, and a Country Calendar director by trade, he is constantly refreshing his acquaintance with the country he calls home. Somehow writing it down seals the deal. 'We make marks in ink,' he says. 'We are here.' Poetry is incantation too, and Richard uses it to call family from the shadows and sing ancestors into being, a tentative offering to the country of his bones and of his heart."--Publisher information.
Notes: Poems.
Table of contents: title: Hill walk; title: Going north; title: Longdrop: a Country Calendar poem; title: Jazz song; title: On the closing of the Captain Cook Tavern; title: Please, do not; title: Whistling with the birds; title: Dog; title: Map; title: Bsharri, Lebanon; title: Refugees; title: Windows; title: A review; title: thirty years later; title: Dunedin; title: Sunday in the islands; title: Paros; title: Walls of Europe; title: Portion; title: There; title: Threaded; title: Snoring; title: Sons; title: Plums.