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Selected Poems
This Selected Poems presents the best of Geoff Cochrane's many published collections, from Aztec Noon (1992) to Chosen (2020).'Geoff Cochrane's is a whole world, rendered in lines at once compressed and open, mysterious and approachable.' -Damien Wilkins'Over the years, Cochrane's work has been a joy to me, a solace, a proof that art can be made in New Zealand which shows ourselves in new ways.' -Pip Adam'Everyone reading local poetry has, or should have, a Geoff Cochrane moment, a blissful book in which they discover his compressed, "courtly" (as Damien Wilkins once described Geoff's writing) poetry mined from his singularly Wellington life, past and present. . . . He was intense, committed, thoughtful, isolated and, in his own way, courageous.' -James Brown
Eighty Four Dash Four Hundred Eighty Four
84-484 was my grandparents' phone number from the 1950s. Absent from my head for donkey's years, it made its return last night as I was watching Antiques Roadshow ...
Hypnic Jerks
Inspired by the moment in which the sleeping brain is so convinced the body is falling that it sends out the limbs to catch itself, the innovative poems in this collection shake the expected order with surreal, unnanounced intrusions of verse.
White Nights
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Tin Nimbus
The first novel by Geoff Cochrane, who has also published poems, a novella and short stories. It is 1979, the time of the Three Mile Island emergency and the crash on Mount Erebus. The novel is set in Wellington and Whisky Brae high in the Southern Alps and tells the story of Sean Angell who is a young alcoholic. He has to learn that it is not the drunkard who writes the drinking song.
The Source of the Song
"Writers ... affected by Catholicism ... explore the meaning of that legacy in their lives and its effects on their writing"--Back cover.
Blood
A novel in which Abel Blood sits at his typewriter, composing the story of his childhood (and that of his brother) and of the events of spring 1976, a time of high intensity, drugs, artists, and undercover policemen. The author lives in Wellington, and has previously published poetry; his first novel was 'Tin Nimbus'.
Acetylene
In this new collection of poems, a moving sequence on the death of the poet's father spurs the themes of loss and need, unconsummated love, and life at the very margin of the new economy. In language both lush and severe, Geoff Cochrane presents an unparalleled contribution.
Responsibility
A darkly comic thriller set in contemporary Berlin, this novel finds Martin Rumsfield, an international-museums expert from New Zealand, feeling hemmed in by the pressures of work and the demands of family. When a shady character from his past turns up with a sure-fire money-making scheme, Martin is seduced by the glamour of a walk on the wild side.
Astonished Dice
Astonished Dice compiles award-winning poet and author Geoff Cochrane's two slim volumes of short stories, originally published in limited editions and his early novella Quest Clinic with more recent stories.
