Millionaire's Shortbread - Softcover

Mary-Jane Duffy; Mary Cresswell; Mary MacPherson; Kerry Hines

Softcover

ISBN 10: 187727643X ISBN 13: 9781877276439

Publisher: Otago University Press, 2003

The contributing poets in this book were all members of Greg O'Brien's poetry workshop in 1999. They have continued to meet since then and their book title is rumored to spring from the fact that meetings have often been in Clarks Café at the Wellington Public Library, where Millionaire's Shortbread is a regular treat. The collection is a collage, with themes and ideas echoing across the manuscript. The poems sit well together, sharing a tautness and economy of language, with touches of humor and strangeness, and well-crafted and confident writing. They also share feminine and feminist sensibilities.

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Product Description:

Meeting at a cafe table in downtown Wellington, sustained by their favourite treat, the poets put together this selection of their work over three years. This book is named after the cake, and the voices of the poets become its flavoursome ingredients.

Synopsis:

"Millionaire's Shortbread" is both book and cake. Meeting at a cafe table in downtown Wellington, sustained by their favourite treat and gathering in an illustrator along the way, the poets put together this selection of their work over three years. It seemed inevitable that the book should be named after the cake, and the distinctive voices of the poets become its flavoursome ingredients.

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