Research Catalog

Title

Selected poems / Charles Brasch ; chosen by Alan Roddick.

Author

Brasch, Charles, 1909-1973.

Publication

Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2015.

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Additional Authors

• Roddick, Alan, 1937-
• Creative New Zealand.

Description

150 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

Charles Brasch (1909-1973) was the founder and first editor of "Landfall," New Zealand's premier journal of literature and ideas. Born in Dunedin, he grew up to be at home in the literature, art, and architecture of Europe, but returned to devote his life to the arts in his own country--as editor, critic, collector, and patron. Brasch's vocation, however, was to be a poet. As he said in his memoir "Indirections," in writing poems he "discovered New Zealand . . . because New Zealand lived in me as no other country could live, part of myself as I was part of it, the world I breathed and wore from birth, my seeing and my language." This selection of Brasch's poetry shows his journey of discovery as he learned by reading poets such as Rilke, W. B. Yeats, and Robert Graves to find his own voice as "a citizen of the English language."

Subject

• New Zealand poetry
• New Zealand > Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Note

• "Published with the assistance of Creative New Zealand"--Back of title page.
• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

From the land and the people. The land and the people (I) -- Pipikariti -- Waianakarua -- The land and the people (III) -- Crossing the straits -- From disputed ground. Forerunners -- The islands (2) -- A view of Rangitoto -- Otago landscapes -- Great sea -- Soldier in reverie -- In memory of Robin Hyde 1906-39 -- From the estate. Blueskin Bay -- In memory of Willi Fels (1858-1946) -- The ruins -- Oreti Beach -- To J.B. at forty -- Letter from Thurlby Domain -- Autumn, Thurlby Domain -- Self to self -- Fuchsia excorticata -- Rest on the flight into Egypt -- Rain over Mitimiti Mountains -- From the estate -- From ambulando. Ambulando -- From Ben Rudd -- From in your presence -- Seventeen April -- By that Sea -- Cry Mercy -- From not far off. A closed book -- Lady engine -- Ode in grey -- Man missing -- Open the heart -- Signals -- At pistol point -- Bonnet and plume -- From Chantecler -- From home ground. Shoriken -- Semblances -- Eternal questions -- World without end -- 'If every street' -- From home ground -- From last poems. 'Here too the leaf-dark forest bird' -- From night cries, Wakari Hospital -- Tempora Mutantur -- Fabled city of Agape -- Watch-dog -- A word to Peter Olds -- Winter Anemones -- From 'back from death' -- The clear.

ISBN

• 9781877578052
• 1877578053

LCCN

^^2015376225

OCLC

904440782

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library