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  • Dick Seddon's Great Dive and Other Stories

    de Ian Wedde ...
    A tragic love affair set against the backdrop of 1970s New Zealand counterculture.Ian Wedde's Dick Seddon's Great Dive and Other Stories traces a passionate relationship amidst the vibrant, yet turbulent, 1970s New Zealand counterculture. Shifting between Bethells Beach and Port Chalmers, the characters navigate a landscape of parties, drugs, and self-discovery.However, the true history of the ... Leer más

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  • The Grass Catcher

    A Digression about Home

    de Ian Wedde ...
    From early childhood in postwar Blenheim to the remote regions of Bangladesh, from an English boarding school to 1960s Auckland, and from Jordan during the civil war of 1969–70 to family homes full of children, this dazzling book traces the many shifts in Ian Wedde's life. Haunted by the ghosts of his restless German and Scottish great grandparents, and of his wandering parents, Wedde is always ... Leer más

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  • The Reed Warbler

    de Ian Wedde ...
    Pregnant after rape, seventeen-year-old Josephina Hansen is exiled from her family home in Kiel in the north of Germany. She finds refuge with her sister's Danish family in Sønderborg, then in Hamburg with a philanthropic businessman and, later, a radical journalist and his sister. In 1880 the worsening political situation forces this makeshift family into exile – and a new life in a small farming ... Leer más

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  • The Commonplace Odes

    de Ian Wedde ...
    A strong new collection from an important poet, his first in seven years. It draws inspiration from the odes of Horace (and Keats), shows a new reflective and sober mood, but also evokes the rich world of the senses and the pleasures of the moment. ... Leer más

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  • The Social Space of the Essay 2003-2023

    de Ian Wedde ...
    A thought-provoking collection of essays exploring art, culture, and society in New Zealand and the Pacific.In Social Space of the Essay, Ian Wedde presents a diverse collection of essays that delve into the realms of art, culture, and society, with a particular focus on Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific region. Drawing upon his extensive experience as a poet, novelist, and critic, Wedde offers ... Leer más

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  • The Drummer

    de Ian Wedde ...
    The Drummer is Ian Wedde's eighth collection and it is plump with exquisite visual images, lost faith in language, revelations of intense beauty and literary allusions (from the Romantics to the New Zealand tradition). This is what the author writes about his collection: 'The word 'transport' seems to me to describe an event anywhere between a bus-trip and a vision. The dogged example of Odysseus ... Leer más

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  • The Shirt Factory

    and Other Stories

    de Ian Wedde ...
    Selected stories from one of New Zealand's most well known authors, Ian Wedde. Largely written in the years between 1970 and 1980, the collection includes the award winning Dick Seddon's Great Dive. ... Leer más

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  • Three Regrets and a Hymn to Beauty

    de Ian Wedde ...
    This collection of poetry features five extended poems that explore the concept of beauty and the nature of language, discussing serious philosophical ideas with zest, energy, wit, and humor. A unique volume featuring remembered and misremembered song lyrics from John Lennon, Lou Reed, Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, Ryan Adams, and Courtney Love, among others, it also includes ... Leer más

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  • Tales of Gotham City

    de Ian Wedde ...
    Tales of Gotham City consists of three groups of poems that were written over a period of seven years, from 1977–83. Ian Wedde says of this collection: When I went 'greedily' looking for meaning among the poems I'd written since about 1977, I found the record of a withdrawal of curiosity, its replacement with a counterpart anger. I'd wanted to know why not, not why. I'd heard myself answering kids ... Leer más

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  • Good Business

    de Ian Wedde ...
    From jaunty and self-deprecating to serious and nostalgic, the poems in this collection paint a vivid portrait of Wellington businesses and institutions. Quietly hilarious, the verse captures the essence of Toyota, Tony's Tyre Service, Metalworx Engineering, Wellington Scrap Metal, the KFC on the corner of Pirie Street, and the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. At the heart of this ... Leer más

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  • Selected Poems

    de Ian Wedde ...
    Ian Wedde has been a major presence in New Zealand poetry since his work began appearing in journals in the late 1960s. His first book of poetry appeared in 1971; his sixth book won the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry in 1978; his sixteenth and most recent was a finalist in 2014. By the mid-1980s, as well as shaping his own verse, he had become an influential critic and shaper of larger trends ... Leer más

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  • Trifecta

    de Ian Wedde ...
    A family's legacy, a nation's identity, and the odds of overcoming the past.Trifecta delves into the lives of Sandy, Veronica, and Mick Klepka, the children of Martin, a charismatic modernist architect who brought 'real coffee' to New Zealand. Years after Martin's death, each sibling grapples with his overbearing legacy: Sandy, a disgraced cultural historian; Veronica, struggling with her business ... Leer más

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