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Otherwise
About this book
John Dennison's first collection, Otherwise, is a finely crafted marvel. The poems here are concerned, above all, with love, and with the strange, unlooked-for manner of its appearances among us. Marked by an emotional acuity and formal deftness, the lyricism of Otherwise draws us into confrontations with human equivocacy and finitude. A trio of elegies for poet Seamus Heaney is moving; a heart-shaking sequence recounts an encounter in Calcutta. Ranging globally from Scotland to Dunedin, Otherwise also sits firmly in the New Zealand literary tradition, with poems which take in Baxter's bees, Bethell's gardening, Duggan's amends and Curnow's 'surge-black fissure'. And here, too, because 'some things bear repeating', are singular moments of turning, of grace and our refusals. This is a moving, meditative and vulnerable manifesto from an assured new voice.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Errata
- Crookes’ Radiometer
- Lone Kauri (reprise)
- Northwards
- The Call
- To Keep Warm Inside
- The Garden
- Nocturne
- Clarities
- Sleepers
- Promissory
- Tawa
- Pitched
- Psalm
- Source to Sea
- Watermarks
- Soaked
- Blackbird
- Catechesis, St Andrews
- Triptych
- Fallen Oak
- To a Cousin
- Reed
- Crossing
- The Manner of Your Leaving
- The House was Full
- A Brief History of the Sign
- House Concert in the Shadowlands
- The Immanent Frame
- After Geering
- On Climate Change
- Ecce
- Seeing it Through
- There’s One Straight Out of the Box
- This Just One Thing
- The Extra Mile
- About the Author
- Copyright
