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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 80
Utgivningsdatum: 2011-05-01
Förlag: Auckland University Press
Dimensioner: 206 x 147 x 8 mm
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ISBN: 9781869404734

Kingdom Animalia

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Author: Janis Freegard
ISBN: 9781869404734

The Escapades of Linnaeus

av Janis Freegard

Häftad, Engelska, 2011-05-01

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Swedish-born naturalist Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) is known as the "Father of Modern Taxonomy", his legacy to the world the standardised genus and species system we still use to name animals and plants. Linnaeus believed it was his mission in life to catalogue everything on the planet: animals, plants, minerals, even a few mythological creatures. The poems in this first, full collection by Wellingtonian Janis Freegard are categorised according to his system in six sections: Mammalia, Aves, Amphibia, Pisces, Insecta and Vermes interspersed with the seven-part poem "The Escapades of Linnaeus". Freegard catalogues the various fantastic and artistic, rational and self-serving ways that human beings draw on the animal world: as symbol and allegory, food and friend, ravening enemy and sacred icon. From surreal prose poems to gorgeous lists, featuring a stuffed kuri, murderous magpies, cake-shop cockroaches, Freegard's verse reflects the diversity of the animal kingdom, its lighthearted fancifulness belying a strong commitment to conservation.

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Glass Rooster

Janis Freegard

The poems in The Glass Rooster explore the spaces inhabited by humans and other creatures - not just natural ecosystems like deserts or the alpine zone, but cities and outer space. Our guide on this journey is a glass rooster - observer of stars a...

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"Like prowling lemurs, Janis Freegard's poems seem ever poised to spring into imagery, irony, comedy, or absurdity." --Richard Reeve, poet, The Among

Janis Freegard was born in South Shields, England, but has lived in New Zealand most of her life. She has a science degree from The University of Auckland, with Honours from Victoria University of Wellington. Her work was included in AUP New Poets 3 (2008) and, also a prose writer, she won the BNZ Katherine Mansfield short story competition in 2001.