Interview Rose

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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The grass with little daisies in itspringsas if springs are under my feet. I poke the ferrule of my umbrella in it, as ifI need a prop for steadiness and yet it is a pretence: waterlogged or notsomething like joy is running underneath. In her twentieth poetry collection,Elizabeth Smither brings together a new ensemble of surprising images and charismaticcompanions. A herd of cows gathers around a radio to listen wide-eyed to aMozart concerto. A frog leads us unhurriedly down the garden path. JaneAusten’s Emma makes an appearance. A cat critiques Wittgenstein. And aflamboyant fabric rose rescues a job interview.Each poem in The Interview Rose isa bridge between the private self and the physical world, travelling the longroute through art, religion, philosophy, and the pleasures of language.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-04-09
Mått:148 x 210 x 6 mm
Vikt:100 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:64
Förlag:Auckland University Press
ISBN:9781776712298

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Elizabeth Smither has written six novels, six collections ofshort stories and nineteen poetry collections. She has twice won the majoraward for New Zealand poetry and was the 2001–2003 Te Mata Poet Laureate. In2004, she was awarded an honorary LittD from the University of Auckland,Waipapa Taumata Rau for her contribution to literature and was made a Member ofthe New Zealand Order of Merit. She received the Prime Minister’s Award forLiterary Achievement in 2008. Her book, Night Horse (AucklandUniversity Press, 2017), won the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for Poetry.

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‘TheInterview Rose has Elizabeth Smither’s voice, her distinctive tone, allover it – measured, wry, insightful, observant. Smither prefers understatementto melodrama, and the poems are directed outward, delighting in the world. TheJane Austen poems are little marvels of literary criticism.’—Tim Upperton