A fugitive presence
By: Peter Bland
Publisher: Steele Roberts Aotearoa
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 61
ISBN-13: 9780947493288
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Poetry
Description: Peter Bland's poems have an ecstatic sensibility and a vividly personal voice, or voices. In this new collection Peter continues his search for 'a lost sense of the sacred' and explores his 'wanting to be a child again.' These are poems of recovery and intervention, full of the intoxicating feeling his work evokes.
Notes: Poems.
Table of contents: title: That other joker; title: Nothing alien; title: Genesis; title: A fugitive presence; title: I caught the boat to nowhere; title: Harbours; title: Lament; title: A pilgrim soul; title: The room is suddenly full of angels...; title: In praise of the day's sweet vagaries...; title: The philosopher; title: The parade; title: Losing touch; title: Hidden depths; title: Strange territory; title: The dance; title: This poem starts right now...; title: Sunstroke in the supermarket; title: The bordello; title: High tide; title: Nostalgia...; title: The unicorns are back; title: The garden; title: Going to seed; title: Exotic hopes; title: Evensong; title: A guest in the garden; title: Figures in a landscape; title: Blackberrying; title: Wayward; title: Elegy for my mother-in-law; title: Exotic; title: At the bar of the Travellers Hotel; title: The empty playground; title: The old country; title: Tell me more; title: The chimney; title: The pious; title: On acquiring an Old Testament tone; title: Just another post-revolutionary tourist guide; title: Home; title: Postures of departure; title: Betrayal; title: Didn't I say?; title: Half-closed doors; title: Bread, water, wine; title: Behind the scenes; title: Hello and goodbye...