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"One of New Zealand's most versatile writers, Fiona Farrell has published four collections of poetry over 25 years, from Cutting Out (1987) to The Broken Book (2011). Nouns, verbs, etc. collects the best work from these books, and intersperses them with other poems thus far 'uncollected'. The themes are wide ranging: political and personal, regional and global, including love and birth and death, war and emigration, history and landscape. The poems mix lyricism with the flat and plainspoken mode of Kiwi vernacular; they channel voices infrequently heard in poetry in traditional song and ballad forms. They are well crafted but unpretentious, jokey yet illuminating, self-deprecating but wise, sad and funny and deeply human."--Publisher description.
Preface -- Cutting out 1987 -- Uncollected poems -- The inhabited initial 1999 -- Uncollected poems -- The pop-up book of invasions 2007 -- Uncollected poems -- The broken book 2011 -- Uncollected poems -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- About the author.
Coloured illustration on inside of cover.