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Night as day /

"In her first book, Nikki-Lee Birdsey takes readers from a remote sheep station in the South Island to the neon signs of Queens; from a hotel in Piha to a Walt Whitman Rest Area in New Jersey; from intimately known cities to remembered landscapes. Night as Day describes a New Zealand that is ov...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Birdsey, Nikki-Lee (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wellington : Victoria University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
New Zealand poetry > 21st century.
Table of Contents:
  • I. Naturalisation. Cette terre homicide (This murderous land)
  • Augustland
  • The long nineteenth century
  • Mutuwhenua
  • The Great Western Hotel
  • The Undergraduate
  • Foreign & domestic
  • II. Objects (Roses de vents). Objects 1
  • Objects 2
  • Objects 3
  • Objects 4
  • Objects 5
  • Objects 6
  • Objects 7
  • Objects 8
  • Objects 9
  • Objects 10
  • Objects 11
  • Objects 12
  • III. Cartographic life. Halloween song
  • Birthday song
  • Dream baby dream
  • War song
  • The blue hour
  • Penny & me
  • RotoVegas
  • Total eclipse of
  • The green ray
  • Three
  • Two
  • One
  • Commentary: these lives.