Author : Anne French
Release : 2015-11-18
Genre : Poetry
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 343/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Blue Voyage and Other Poems by : Anne French
Download or read book The Blue Voyage and Other Poems written by Anne French. This book was released on 2015-11-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blue Voyage and Other Poems is a new collection by Anne French &– elegiac in tone and confident in execution. A more comic initial section (by noted New Zealand regional poet &‘William Butler Smith') leads into a section of thoughtful but vivid sailing poems and then a number of elegies, laments and funeral songs from French's &‘black notebook'. The final section voyages to Korea and includes some loose translations of poems by modernist Korean writer Han Yong-un. In their considerations of remembrance and writerly acts, these &‘translations' aptly pick up themes introduced in the book's first three parts and round off the book nicely: &‘Waiting / for the ringing of the bells announcing daybreak, / I put down my brush.'
