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Dandy Bogan: Selected Poems
Brings one of New Zealand's most distinctive poets to the rest of the world for the first time. Nick Ascroft's poems display a familiarity with the furthest reaches of the Scrabble dictionary, and even somewhat beyond. This logophilia evinces a fascination not merely with language but with the workings of the human mind. As the poems range across a dazzling variety of subject matter, Ascroft's abiding interest and concern is what it means to be human. Who are we? How did we get here? And what the f*** do we do now?
96 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2018
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July 1, 2019
Enjoyed this. Great poems - funny, clever, interesting. And also a great selection and ordering. Starts w/ brand new poems, then goes through the three existing, previous volumes and cherry-picks, finishing with "unpublished" poems - hinting at leftovers, unpublishable...so it's more like a DVD with extra features or a box-set of music than a normal volume or collection of poetry. I liked that aspect too.
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