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Simply by Sailing in a New Direction
Simply by sailing in a new direction You could enlarge the world. – 'Landfall in Unknown Seas' hang on to your hands anything can happen – 'Two Pedestrians with One Thought' Allen Curnow (1911–2001) is widely recognised as one of the most distinguished poets writing in English in the second half of the twentieth century. From Valley of Decision (1933) to The Bells of Saint Babel's (2001) he defined and redefined how poetry might discover the possibilities of a world seen afresh. Through relationships with writers from Dylan Thomas to C. K. Stead he influenced the changing shape of modern poetry. And in criticism and anthologies like the Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse he helped ident...
Early Days Yet
This is a collection of poems by Allen Curnow, written between the years 1941-1997. The poems include "Continuum."
Allen Curnow
Allen Curnow (1911–2001) was at the time of his death regarded as one of the greatest of all poets writing in English. For seventy years, from Valley of Decision (1933) to The Bells of Saint Babel's (2001), Curnow's poetry was always on the move - from his early approaches to New Zealand identity and myth to later work concerned with the philosophical encounter between word and world. Curnow also played a major role in New Zealand life as editor, critic, commentator and anthologist, as well as a much-loved writer of light verse under the penname of Whim Wham. In his later years he acquired an impressive international reputation, winning the Commonwealth Prize for Poetry and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Throughout his lifetime, Allen Curnow revised, selected and collected his poetry in various ways. For the first time, this collection brings together all of the poems that Curnow collected in his lifetime grouped in their original volumes. The notes reproduce Curnow's comments on individual poems and include relevant editorial guidance. This is the definitive collection of work by New Zealand's most distinguished poet.
Early Days Yet
Early Days Yet is a major publication in which the greatest of all New Zealand poets presents twelve previously uncollected poems that are strong, rich and brilliant. These poems lead off into the past and introduce readers to the poems published since 1970, in addition to a selection from the 40s, 50s and 60s. Vivid childhood memories predominate in the new poems but sharp contemporary concerns, satiric or tragic, are always present. Early Days Yet is an astounding and awe-inspiring volume with depths that no reader can readily exhaust or fully grasp. The poems collected in Early Days Yet won the New Zealand Book Award multiple times as well as the Dillons Commonwealth Poetry Prize.
You Will Know when You Get There
Possessing a unity of mood and purpose, this collection of poems are about the poet's world, human fate, life and death. The settings are unmistakable a beach at Karekare or in Sicily, an embassy party in Washington, a windy autumn in Auckland or a wet summer in Paris.
Allen Curnow
Allen Curnow (1911-2001) was at the time of his death regarded as one of the greatest of all poets writing in English. For seventy years, from Valley of Decision (1933) to The Bells of Saint Babel's (2001), Curnow's poetry was always on the move - from his early approaches to New Zealand identity and myth to later work concerned with the philosophical encounter between word and world. Curnow also played a major role in New Zealand life as editor, critic, commentator and anthologist, as well as a much-loved writer of light verse under the penname of Whim Wham. This is the definitive collection of work by New Zealand's most distinguished poet.
The Bells of St Babel's
Remarkable for the astonishing mastery of technique, voice and tone, the poems in The Bells of St Babel's display Allen Curnow's wonderful ear for the vernacular and his unerring sense of the absurdity of modish attitudes.
Naming of the Bones
The poems in Naming of the Bones touch on Christian values and work towards a significant faith, at the same time focusing on the wonders of an evolving cosmos. The poems delight in the things of the earth, suggesting a secular Christianity. They hope justice will overcome human greed and violence, while they assent to the seasons developing of our landscapes and the beauty and dangers of our place in creation. The sequence 'Like the Dewfall' works with the music of the French composer Olivier Messiaen and his double piano masterpiece, 'Visions de l'Amen', a suite of seven pieces for two pianos, composed in 1943 during the Nazi Occupation of Paris. Other poems connect the 'landscape, sea-sca...
A History of New Zealand Literature
A History of New Zealand Literature traces the genealogy of New Zealand literature from its first imaginings by Europeans in the eighteenth century. Beginning with a comprehensive introduction that charts the growth of, and challenges to, a nationalist literary tradition, the essays in this History illuminate the cultural and political intricacies of New Zealand literature, surveying the multilayered verse, fiction and drama of such diverse writers as Katherine Mansfield, Allen Curnow, Frank Sargeson, Janet Frame, Keri Hulme, Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History devotes special attention to the lasting significance of colonialism, biculturalism and multiculturalism in New Zealand literature. A History of New Zealand Literature is of pivotal importance to the development of New Zealand writing and will serve as an invaluable reference for specialists and students alike.
