The Night we ate the Baby
By: Tim Upperton
Publisher: HauNui Press Ltd
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Manawatu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 53
ISBN-13: 9780473288396
Description: These wilfully, calmly disagreeable poems have tenderness and courage at their heart. Both bleak and hilarious, they perturb so deeply that they comfort. The speaker of these poems is often trapped, but from inside his predicament he speaks freely. He scrutinises his subject-a film, a phrase, a loss, a terrible life-giving meal-with a razor-like eye, taking us down with him then giving us solace. I am both glad and fearful that I will never stop reading this book' --Ashleigh Young, 2014.
Table of contents: title: Avoid; title: Valediction; title: Spring; title: The night we ate the baby; title: A nice day; title: You want the truth?; title: When we watched movies; title: The cat on the fence; title: All the things I never knew; title: Drive; title: Everything is possible; title: Small coffins; title: At the cemetery; title: Sonnet; title: Fonnet; title: The trouble with poetry; title: Clean; title: I forget the sex; title: Hey! Schapelle Corby attempts suicide; title: The colour of birds; title: My lazy eye; title: Would you eat your family?; title: Take care,; title: Lady with a pet dog; title: The bare hook; title: A cup of tea; title: The mid-morning phone call; title: Late valentine; title: A fact about the douroucouli; title: Obituary ghazal; title: That way only.