The People Dance

Barry Southam

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Published by Northcott Reeves, Dunedin, 1982

1776562356 / 9781776562350

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54 pages. The quivering luminosity of Islander is the rippling movement of the sea in sunl ight, reflecting at once here, at once there, and then dissolving the distinctio ns. From Scotland to the Antipodes and back again, Davidson maps the prosaic alo ngside the sacred, inviting us into a gentle dissolution of place-based story, t owards a more non-dual perspective of being in the world. This is the work of a cartographer of 'ancient light'. -Em Strang, author of Bird-Woman, winner of the 2017 Saltire Award for the Best Scottish Poetry Book of the Year The title poem of Islander is an essential definition: not rooted in landlocked blood and soil but connected by sea and distance, and the returning tides of Scotland, the arc hipelagos of New Zealand and the islands of Oceania. Here is a poet never given to the common gestures of banal defiance but simply slipping away from the traps of rigidity and subscription, attuned to the ancient laws of movement and sensi tive to the uncertainties, the vulnerable truths. 'Interislander' takes a specif ic urgency, a man suffering a heart attack on the ferry between the North Island and the South Island: practicalities and actions demanded of the moment are def tly depicted but the human place in our unfinished history is there between the sea beneath and the enveloping sky above. 'The Desert Road' crosses the country, mapped by co-ordinate points, listening as the darkness falls and languages com e out in constellations, leading through the wilderness to strange, 'familiar pl aces'. 'The inbreath' takes us to Ardbeg and another waterside with slipstreams and shipping lanes, snow in the mouth and Scotland as no more nor less than anot her harbour of perception. Lynn Davidson is a poet opening such perceptions and.…

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Title
The People Dance
Author
Barry Southam
Publisher
Northcott Reeves, Dunedin
Publication year
1982
Condition
Good
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
1776562356
ISBN 13
9781776562350
Dimensions
21.0cm x 0.8cm x 14.6cm
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