The Blue Voyage and Other Poems

Fiction & Literature, Poetry
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Author: Anne French ISBN: 9781775588344
Publisher: Auckland University Press Publication: November 18, 2015
Imprint: Auckland University Press Language: English
Author: Anne French
ISBN: 9781775588344
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Publication: November 18, 2015
Imprint: Auckland University Press
Language: English

The Blue Voyage and Other Poems is a new collection by Anne French – elegiac in tone and confident in execution. A more comic initial section (by noted New Zealand regional poet ‘William Butler Smith') leads into a section of thoughtful but vivid sailing poems and then a number of elegies, laments and funeral songs from French's ‘black notebook'. The final section voyages to Korea and includes some loose translations of poems by modernist Korean writer Han Yong-un. In their considerations of remembrance and writerly acts, these ‘translations' aptly pick up themes introduced in the book's first three parts and round off the book nicely: ‘Waiting / for the ringing of the bells announcing daybreak, / I put down my brush.'

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The Blue Voyage and Other Poems is a new collection by Anne French – elegiac in tone and confident in execution. A more comic initial section (by noted New Zealand regional poet ‘William Butler Smith') leads into a section of thoughtful but vivid sailing poems and then a number of elegies, laments and funeral songs from French's ‘black notebook'. The final section voyages to Korea and includes some loose translations of poems by modernist Korean writer Han Yong-un. In their considerations of remembrance and writerly acts, these ‘translations' aptly pick up themes introduced in the book's first three parts and round off the book nicely: ‘Waiting / for the ringing of the bells announcing daybreak, / I put down my brush.'

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