Tender machines /

In this follow-up collection to the award-winning The Truth Garden, Emma Neale asks where exactly do the personal and the political drop hands? In poems that are engaged, compelling, witty and moving, she looks at how we navigate a true line through the psychological, environmental, social and econo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Neale, Emma (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Origins
  • Brink
  • Pilot light
  • Hunter
  • Bad housekeeping
  • Alchemy
  • Hard task, Master
  • Towards a theory of aggression in early childhood development
  • The lost letters
  • Domestic
  • A very bad day
  • Natural justice
  • The piano's appointment
  • PokPo
  • Bolt
  • Zac and the beanstalk
  • Cusp
  • Man up
  • Any news?
  • Tender machines
  • Slip knot
  • Oral history
  • Three triolets: Trust ; Old head, young shoulders ; Triolet for Jim
  • Morality
  • Perigee
  • Wildness
  • Rocked song
  • Caller unknown
  • Ross Creek
  • Slice of Life cast list : in order of appearance
  • Queen's Drive, Town Belt
  • Suburban story
  • John Smith, brother of Tim
  • The ghost in the machine
  • Over
  • Feeling only sort of sorry for the robots
  • Cyber bullying
  • The new narcissism
  • Auto correct
  • Vision
  • Sleep-talking
  • Footnote
  • Philosophical doodle
  • Sight specific work
  • Breach
  • Stoic
  • It beggars belief
  • Marshalling the facts
  • Huia
  • Heatwave
  • 'Properly protecting the most pure marine ecosystem left on earth was not consistent with the Government's economic growth objective'
  • Awake
  • Untoward
  • Soon, moon
  • Groyne
  • How to install a glass ceiling
  • Global
  • Polemic.