{"id":29478,"date":"2015-06-27T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=29478"},"modified":"2015-06-22T07:52:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T19:52:28","slug":"just-arrived-this-city-by-jennifer-compton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/06\/27\/just-arrived-this-city-by-jennifer-compton\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Arrived: “This City” by Jennifer Compton"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"This<\/a>The Kathleen Grattan Award is New Zealand’s richest poetry prize — and my fellow Tuesday poet, expatriate New Zealand poet, Jennifer Compton<\/a>, won the Award in 2010.<\/p>\n

Her Award-winning collection, This City<\/em><\/strong>, was published by Otago University Press in 2011 and I am delighted to have recently purchased a copy.<\/p>\n

I won’t be able to really sit down and spend time with it until I’ve finished the DAUGHTER copyedit, but I am very much looking forward to having that time.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, here’s what the back cover says:<\/p>\n

“<\/em>This City circles the globe from Florence to Palmerston North but the resulting volume is far more than so-called armchair travel. Topography and public space are a preoccupation (buses and trains, roads and houses, even Google Earth\u2019s Street View all get a mention), but it is her evocation of the transient grounded in these spaces \u2013 snippets overheard on an Italian strada, scenes on a bus on Moxham Ave, imaginings of lives from long ago (Jane Austen, Emily Dickenson) \u2013 that leaves a taut and exciting impression of lives lived here, in this place, in <\/em>This City.<\/em><\/p>\n

And just to entice you further, I’ll post the opening lines:<\/p>\n

“I am travelling away from my life, towards my life.<\/em>
\n This city knows all my secrets.<\/em>
\n And that tram, lit from within, waiting at the end of the line.<\/em>
\n This city, which is nowhere else.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Something to look forward to, indeed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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