Shaggy Magpie Songs
By: Murray Edmond
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Auckland
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781775588290; 9781775588320; 9781775588306; 9781869408411
Subjects: Poetry
Work titles: Poems
Table of contents: title: 1. Praise: The poet returns to New York; title: The letter from Rilke; title: A sixty-year-old frowning private man; title: Well it's been a week blues; title: Ancient mariner in Avondale; title: Mister Wat; title: Haiku for Mishima; title: Conversation with my uncle; title: Kiss the impossible good night; title: Here I give thanks to modernism; title: The poet in Hamilton. Nonsense: Forty-two boxes; title: A train wreck in the universe. Blues: Romantics in search of adventures with music; title: Matakitaki, 1822; title: Clown on skates; title: Difficult for gauchos to kiss when wearing hats; title: Accentuate the negative; title: Road song; title: Taranaki journey; title: Digging for Kitchener; title: Tongatapu dream choruses; title: In the purple mists of last evening; title: With Jean-Paul Sartre on the banks of the Waikato. Pop: Painter looking at painting; title: National standards; title: Snap snap; title: So-so street (a soliloquy); title: Swing your tiger; title: Pablo the cat; title: So says Tina; title: Good looking; title: Cobber's song : 'sixty swinging years'; title: Shantih shanty.