The summer king
Subtitle: poems
By: Joanna Preston.
Publisher: Otago University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Dunedin, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781877372698
Subjects: New Zealand poetry
Description: The summer king tells stories, exploring the world we inhabit and our relationships with the other. Myth, catastrophe, family, strangers, sex, sport - all feature in this 'fine and fierce first collection' (Gillian Clark). The book contains two sequences: 'Cowarral', about Preston's family farm in the Forbes Valley of NSW, and 'Venery', which was inspired by the collective nouns that first appeared in the Book of St Albans.
Notes: Inaugural winner of the Kathleen Grattan Award.