Edgeland : and other poems / David Eggleton.

Poems.

"The poetry in David Eggleton's new collection possesses an intensity and driven energy, using the poet's recognisable signature oratory voice, strong in beat and measure, rooted in rich traditions of chant, lament and ode. Mashing together the lyrical and the slangy, celebrating local vernaculars while simultaneously plugged in to a global zeitgeist of technobabble and fake news, Eggleton recycles and 'repurposes' high visual culture and demotic aural culture. Edgeland offers a tragicomic and surreal skewering of the cons, swindles, posturings and flaws of damaged people on the make, dislocating the reader with high speed jinks and swerves. A satirical eye interrogates 'data', media bilge, opinion, social change, extreme experience, and worst-case-scenario extrapolations. A menagerie of vivid characters burst off the page - including the man who mistook the moon for a candy bar, instigators, prestidigitators, procurators, promulgators, Zorro and Governor Grey - alongside a survey of 35 types of beard, an ode to ooze, metadada, Gordon Ramsay's pan-sizzled bull's pizzle, a Baxterian moa, and various other waka jumpers hailing from Jafaville to Jack's Blowhole. Edgeland is a dazzling display of polychromatic virtuosity, teeming with irrepressible wordplay, startling imagery and anarchic wit, from one of New Zealand's best-loved poets. Illustrations and cover art by New Zealand artist James Robinson."--Publisher information.

Includes bibliographies and index.

"The poetry in David Eggleton's new collection possesses an intensity and driven energy, using the poet's recognisable signature oratory voice, strong in beat and measure, rooted in rich traditions of chant, lament and ode. Mashing together the lyrical and the slangy, celebrating local vernaculars while simultaneously plugged in to a global zeitgeist of technobabble and fake news, Eggleton recycles and 'repurposes' high visual culture and demotic aural culture. Edgeland offers a tragicomic and surreal skewering of the cons, swindles, posturings and flaws of damaged people on the make, dislocating the reader with high speed jinks and swerves. A satirical eye interrogates 'data', media bilge, opinion, social change, extreme experience, and worst-case-scenario extrapolations. A menagerie of vivid characters burst off the page - including the man who mistook the moon for a candy bar, instigators, prestidigitators, procurators, promulgators, Zorro and Governor Grey - alongside a survey of 35 types of beard, an ode to ooze, metadada, Gordon Ramsay's pan-sizzled bull's pizzle, a Baxterian moa, and various other waka jumpers hailing from Jafaville to Jack's Blowhole. Edgeland is a dazzling display of polychromatic virtuosity, teeming with irrepressible wordplay, startling imagery and anarchic wit, from one of New Zealand's best-loved poets. Illustrations and cover art by New Zealand artist James Robinson."--Publisher information.

TamakiI Makaurau: Edgeland -- Maunga: Volcanoes -- The sleepers -- The fencibles -- Two takes on the Waitākere Ranges -- Flying in, southside -- King tide, northside -- Tamaki Drive -- Phantasmagoria from Mount Victoria/Takuraga, Devonport -- Hauraki -- Day swimmers -- The floral clock -- Two prospects -- Methusalem Muirihiku: Lake Wakatipu -- Distant Ophir -- Saddle Hill -- Spinners -- Tūhawaiki, the Catlins -- Southern Embroidery -- Tourists everywhere -- The wilder years -- Game -- Scenery muncher -- Kettle -- Spidermoon: New Year's Day at Byron Bay -- Moreton Bay -- Spidermoon -- Panel beater -- This gubberment, bro, this gubberment -- Penny serenade -- Planet blast -- Land smasher -- In crematoria -- Heat -- Mullum rain -- Melbournia -- Scale -- Moa in the Mātukituki Valley: A cento -- Selected poems of Nelson Kiwi -- The smoking typewriter -- Poem for Ben Brown -- The collective -- Toss -- Jamie Oliver's TV dinner -- Age of the anthrocene -- Mission creep -- The ashescCurse -- A rejection ode -- ThepPeople-smuggler's beard -- Identity parade -- Scale -- Obelisk -- Legend:. 95 With Woven Mats -- Love bite -- Men's group -- My inner Aotearoa -- Thirty days of night -- The great wave -- Orbit of the corpse flower -- Escapologist -- Legend.

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