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Slim Volume
About this book
A slim volume of verse, like a bicycle, offers us fresh and joyful and sometimes troubling ways of seeing the world. James Brown' s eighth collection of poems begins in childhood and moves through education, jobs and the essential unremarkable activities that occupy our lives – before arriving in a post-apocalyptic future, where the nights run late and down to the wire. The poems are ever-alert to the minutiae of power, the thrill of the unexpected, and the shiny potential of an ending. Always compelling, funny, heartening, Brown speaks volumes even when claiming to have little to say. ' James Brown makes the process of reading feel effortless, but always rewards active attention. Like Stevie Smith, he can sometimes seem to be waving and drowning at the same time.' — Bill Manhire, North & South
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Table of contents
- Cover page
- Title page
- Copyright
- Content
- Please Life
- Tagging
- Heaven
- Hornetroid: The Fearsome Myriapod from the Far-off Galaxy of Thoraxid
- Adventure Time
- Primary Education
- Allegory in the Treetop
- The Magic Show
- Bad Light
- One Thing Leads to Another or My Part in the Dairy Industry
- Beryl Brown’s Poem
- Another Palmerston North Poem
- What You’re Told When You Get a New Zealand Driver Licence
- Cutting-Edge Comedy
- Cultural Complaint
- The Glorious Mourning
- Evening
- Set Building
- Literary Criticism
- Cycling Down Happy Valley Road at Night
- Unfamiliar Text
- Predestination
- My 5-day Diary
- The Mentor
- Charles Simic
- Creative Content
- The Crisis Meeting
- Inevitable Altogether
- Worlds Away
- Problem Poem
- We’ll See
- If Seal is Broken, Please Check Contents Before Accepting
- Boys Have Penises and Girls Have Diabetes
- Amen
- Operation Lester
- Waiting
- You Don’t Know What You’re Missing
- Outside Broadcast
- Spiders
- Green and Orange
- Our lives had entered
- Thirteen Ringtones
- Mixed Messages
- Love Poem
- Hand and Eye
- Little White Bear
- Big Brown Bear
- Blood Tests during the Night
- Leaving Island Bay
- Nothing Lasting
- Counselling
- Hindsight
- Retirement
- The Book of Credence
- Leadership Material
- The Wedge of Light on a Chair
- Dumb
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
