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Every now and then I have another child /

"A mysterious doppelgänger sister, a newborn baby, a boy in a mural, a detective, a former lover, a student stalker... are they real or imagined? Building on Diane Brown's tradition of extended poetic narratives ... this ... wafts between the truly surreal and the 'everyday' absu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Diane (Diane Edith) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, Te Whare Tā o Te Wānanga o Ōtākou, 2020.
Subjects:
Motherhood > Poetry.
Motherhood.
New Zealand poetry > 21st century.
Poetry.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue. This is how it is for all of us
  • On the edge. In the dark
  • Who are you?
  • Yesterday, taking the long way home
  • Reading between the streets
  • The unnamed speaks (The baby)
  • Maintaining the mask
  • Possessing a mattress
  • At Tate Britain last week
  • Face in a crowd
  • Finding yourself on the other side
  • A woman supposedly like me
  • Inserting myself into the story (The dopplegänger)
  • The mother as narcissist
  • Sing me a name? (The baby)
  • Floods of one kind or another. Where the heart is
  • An approach in the cinema
  • Why not show my face? (The baby)
  • The day of the flood
  • The woman who refuses to leave
  • Email advice
  • Lurking in non-fiction (The dopplegänger)
  • End of the game
  • Nibbling the shoreline
  • Easy to invade
  • Out in the cold (The dopplegänger)
  • Selective mutism (The baby)
  • Up not down. A proposal
  • Trying on the garments of a new life
  • A visitor in the garden
  • The pattern of memoir
  • Stealing time
  • Currently under the bridge (The dopplegänger)
  • A new woman
  • Do you like your new home? (The baby)
  • Gone no address
  • The absence of a pen
  • What's expected?
  • Slipping away (The baby)
  • Mother failure
  • On the brink
  • Slipping on ice
  • Every cloud a story. The idiosyncrasies of home
  • Lost in the air
  • Reading the death notices
  • Potluck
  • Setting up
  • A cloud in my net (The boy on the wall)
  • Self-defence (The dopplegänger)
  • The knock on the door
  • How we give ourselves away
  • No cameras but a film set
  • A home not a wall (The boy on the wall)
  • Slippery surfaces. Time again
  • Stupid with love
  • The funeral
  • Slim pickings (The dopplegänger)
  • A posting of you
  • Selected fragments
  • The inquisitor returns
  • Dangers out the window
  • Remembering a birth
  • After the facts
  • How do you know which is right?
  • What use are words? (The dopplegänger)
  • An impossible greenness
  • Following a trail. Witnesses
  • Off to the gallows
  • Two-dimensional dreaming
  • Litter for the day
  • Lying in wait
  • Not a clue (The dopplegänger)
  • A small group
  • Semantics at New World
  • Turned drug runner
  • Back to my place (The boy on the wall)
  • Getting to the centre. Stepping out of and into the picture
  • Manifesto (The baby)
  • Woman in gold
  • Dobbing in
  • Window shopping
  • No love for a nark (The dopplegänger)
  • Unfound
  • Multiple pseudonyms
  • Nest in the park
  • Metafiction
  • An unwanted dependency (The baby)
  • And found. The island
  • In the clear
  • The lost
  • Just between us (The dopplegänger)
  • Dealing to
  • Ways of processing
  • Celebrity for five
  • Everyone wants to be wanted
  • Last words (The dopplegänger)
  • How it is done
  • No flowers, please
  • Sound harmonies
  • Her ideal muse (The baby)
  • Making use of the compost. The rubric of the novel
  • Noisy women
  • That's enough from these invaders
  • Yes
  • Under the earth
  • A pebble
  • The land is my mother
  • A true poet (The mother)
  • Joint authors
  • Epilogue. Written on the body (The baby).