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The Journal Box
The Journal Box contains four journals kept at different times since 1975 by the poet Elizabeth Smither. She records with wit and charm a rich life of the mind, of feelings and the complexities of thought that drive her work. Beautifully written, the journals teem with vivid impressions and offer keen insight into a creative and original personality.
Red Shoes
Elizabeth Smither was appointed New Zealand's third Te Mata Estate Poet Laureate in 2000. The laureateship is for a term of two years and has the twin aims of honouring the work of New Zealand's foremost poets and raising the profile of poetry in the community. Red Shoes, the collection that resulted from Elizabeth Smither's term as Poet Laureate, celebrates the pleasure, not just to be had from wearing red shoes (or a red dress), but friendships, parties, music, getting drenched at a bust stop. In these poems you will find young and old, meditations on a favourite book about death, gardens, and proven methods of making progress.
Night Horse
In Elizabeth Smither's eighteenth collection of poetry her words are as vital as ever. The poems take the everyday &– mothers and daughters, cats and horses, books and bowls, slippers and shirts &– and transform them into something fresh: sometimes surreal, sometimes funny, often enchanted. And throughout, the work is infused with the personality of the author: a quirky, whimsical observer of the mundane world around her, which she shows to be full of surprises.
The Sea Question
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The Lark Quartet
Elizabeth Smither, one of New Zealand's most distinguished poets, has perfected a distinctive and elegant style in such a way that it is easy to take the real quality of her poems for granted. But this is among her best collections, moving through a range of attentions - friends, gardens, works of art - with great charm and an unexpected and quirky wit.
A Pattern of Marching
An accomplished collection of poems, A Pattern of Marching brings us messages of cool precision and accuracy from Elizabeth Smither. Restrained elegance, fine craft and wit characterise the verses. This is, in the words of the last line of the title poem, 'A skilled performance anyone could share'.
Lola
On the day Lola Dearborn vowed to never attend another funeral, she was deliberately present at three . . . Lola Dearborn marries into Dearborn & Zander, a family of funeral directors, when she falls for Sam Dearborn at a dance. But when Sam, and her friend Alice Zander, injured in a freak accident, die, Lola devotes the rest of her life to exploration. She takes up residence in an art-deco hotel, she befriends the members of the Sylvester Quartet after gate-crashing a rehearsal. She reflects on the different kinds of love offered by men: Luigi the Italian undertaker who buries a dog with its owner, and Charles the retired surgeon with his disruptive daughter, Brandy. Lola's themes underpin an exploration of love and death (including pet cemeteries), music and friendship. Set between Australia and New Zealand, it is a story both acute and amusing, knowledgeable and questing - much like Lola herself.
My American Chair
White lies, hip replacements and ballet with a sawhorse. Parisian drycleaners and the brush of the grass in Central Park. In My American Chair, Elizabeth Smither leads us through serendipitous encounters, the uncanny in the ordinary, the intricacies of friendship and ruminations on mortality. Assured, intimate, witty, revealing &– this is a poetry collection to treasure from one of our most beloved voices. When you purchase them you must allow &– five stems, fifteen buds, only two half-open &– for their circumference to comeflouncing, bowing, bending in two days' timelike fifteen girls who have changed intowhite debutante dresses or five womenwho have danced all night and come home with the milkman.— &‘ The white lilies open'
Loving Sylvie
'Elizabeth Smither brings wit, warmth and wisdom to this absorbing and beautifully written inter-generational story.' Peter Simpson 'Smither has written a deeply felt, closely observed, tightly patterned novel about how we treat each other and how we should treat each other.' Paul LIttle, North & South 'Such is the grace and skill at work in Smither's writing, I put it down feeling I'd been contemplating art.' Catherine Woulfe, NZ Listener 'A work of deft characterisation . . . a novel whose plot and cast are charted with particular, poetic and plentiful care.' Siobhan Harvey, The New Zealand Herald Sylvie rows across a lake to her wedding. Madeleine flees to Paris and works in Le Livre Bleu...
The Blue Coat
"A wind that only the widest gardens can hold. A lipstick stain on a poem. A bee released - with recourse to a letter from the Inland Revenue Department. A grey sky like a governess, a mother dressed by her two-year-old son, a flurry of leaves behind a tram. At times meditative, at times playful, even slightly subversive, this collection impresses with a surety of word, a deft touch and a polished harmony"--Back cover.
