Castaly Poems, 1973-77

Author/creator Wedde, Ian Author
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAuckland : Auckland University Press Chicago : Independent Publishers Group [Distributor]
Description80 p. 09.000 x 06.000 in.
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Summary Annotation The poems that make up "Castaly: Poems 1973-77" have been selected by the poet from work completed over the course of four years. Ian Wedde writes: The poems in this book represent my attempts to remain alert in the world between 1973 and 1977. . . . Nevertheless my main obsessions (sometimes called 'themes') have remained the same, though not habitual I hope. They are few, and if they don't come across in these poems, well, I did the best I could. (That's all I am telling.) Last night I had a comical dream in which all the typists from the typing pool of a large insurance company hurled their typewriters down the lift-shaft of the building. This odd vision is what I have to get on with now, it's still mine, whereas the poems in this book belong (with thanks) to whoever cares to read them. (I suspect the dream offered a metaphor for wasted emotions. I recognise another voice which says, 'Nothing is wasted' . . .
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