Walls to Kick and Hills to Sing From : a Comedy with Interruptions.

Arranged in four acts, this collection of poems merrily experiments with voice, performance, and medium, exploring the craft through monologues, dialogues, choruses, songs, scene sets, and storyboards. Filled with experimental and stirring language, this anthology includes a piece confronting global...

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Main Author: Edmond, Murray
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Auckland University Press, 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Epigraph; Table of Contents; 1 : Exposition; Setting the seal on NZ poetry; Nice hollow you've got; The passing of the forest; A social and poetic chorus; A ballad dreaming of home ... ; Tender validation; The goat in Auckland; Ecstasy: a short film; 2 : Complication; Suburban nature morte; Album of the hour; A translation of one of the sonnets of the importunate; This one that one; Miniature; 3 : Revelation; Leaping Malinowski; The animals of the bed; Folk song; Galah; Rhapsody in pink; Old Good Friday; Whose say-so says so?; Never enough; That afternoon; 4 : Peripety.
  • The first of the firstLast caravanserai; A name; The ballad of incommensurate space; You all do know this mantle; Of the nature of nature; 5 : Catastrophe; Small interior; Man alone; The Borgesian instance; How the rats of knowledge stayed on board to see the show; 18/4/1986
  • 18/4/2006; 6 : Dénouement; Four little new year songs; Narrow roads to the east; Global whispers: a chorus; The Gates of Paradise; Notes; Copyright.