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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Sinking lessons
  title info:
    title: Poems. Selections
  name:
    name part: Armstrong, Philip
    name part: 1967-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Poetry.
  genre: New Zealand poetry-21st century.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nz
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 53 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
  abstract: The poems in Sinking Lessons portray the vitality of a world full of things and beings we too often disregard, using language that vibrates in harmony with the lively tales it tells - from small, everyday events to stories of shipwrecks and strandings, resurrections and reanimations, arctic adventures and descents into the underworld. The cast of characters includes members of the poet's family alongside heroes from myth and literature, such as Orpheus, Scheherazade and Frankenstein's Creature. And crowding in upon these, at all times, a multitude of non-human protagonists: sun and stars, wind and water, mud and sand, body fluids, decaying matter, chemicals organic and inorganic, and a great many fishes and birds and beasts.
  table of contents: A horizontal light -- Portolan: Sinker; Call sign; Rising sign; Swimming lessons -- Die Traumdeutung -- The old man of the sea -- General relativity -- Longitude -- A visit to hell -- Obiter dicta: Voccus; Going to a funeral -- Jeremiad -- Creature effects: Best before; The widening gyre; Resurrexit -- The female me -- Book of beasts: Some avian habitats; A vulnerable species; A parasite; Mutualism; Great apes -- In the infinity pool -- The wake-up -- Self introduced -- Eel dream -- A note upon the mystic writing-pad -- Song of the Orpheus -- Headwind -- Holding still.
  note: Philip Armstrong.
  note: Poems.
  note: Winner of the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2019.
  classification: PR9639.4.A76 A6 2020
  classification: 821/.92
  classification: NZ821.3
  identifier: 9781988592411
  identifier: 1988592410
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: NZ1
    record creation date: 200327
    record change date: 20250318223405.6
    record identifier: in00004446434
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng