Korero #03: The Lobster's Tale (Picture Book for Adults)

Korero #03: The Lobster's Tale (Picture Book for Adults)
Chris Price, Bruce Foster
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NZ$ 45.00
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NZ$ 36.00
Hardback
h250 x 190mm - 96pg
7 Oct 2021 NZ
Locally sourced in NZ eta 5-15 days
9780995137813
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WHAT' S THE LOBSTER' S TUNE WHEN HE IS BOILING? Exploring the lobster' s biology and its history in language, literature and gastronomy,The Lobster' s Tale navigates the perils of a life driven by overreaching ambition andthe appetite for knowledge, conquest and commerce. In conversation with the text, Bruce Foster' s photographs navigate a parallelcourse of shadows and light, in which the extraordinary textures and colours of thenatural world tell a darker story. The Lobster' s Tale is a meditation on the quest forimmortality on which both artists and scientists have embarked, and the unhappyconsequences of the attempt to both conquer nature and create masterpieces. Meanwhile, below the waterline of text and images, a modest voice can be overheardwhispering an alternative to these narratives of heroic and doomed exploration. The Lobster' s Tale brings together award-winning writer Chris Price and distinguishedphotographer Bruce Foster. It is the third in the korero series of ' picture books' editedby Lloyd Jones, written and made for grown-ups and designed to showcase leadingNew Zealand writers and artists working together in a collaborative and dynamic way.

#01: High Wire (Picture Book for Adults)
#02: Shining Land: Looking for Robin Hyde (Picture Book for Adults)
#03: Lobster's Tale (Picture Book for Adults), The
Bordering on Miraculous

Chris Price' s work often hovers around the intersections between literature andscience. She is the author of three poetry collections including Husk (Best FirstBook of Poetry, Montana NZ Book Awards, 2002), The Blind Singer (2009) andBeside Herself (2016), as well as the hybrid ' biographical dictionary' Brief Lives(shortlisted, Montana NZ Book Awards' biography category, 2007). Chris is aformer editor of the literary journal Landfall. Since 2009 she has convened the MAworkshop in Poetry and Creative Nonfiction at the International Institute of ModernLetters. Bruce Foster' s work meditates on the dialogue between the natural and humanalteredenvironments, and is held by major museums and art galleries throughoutNew Zealand. He was one of nine artists on the ' Kermadec Project: Lines Acrossthe Ocean' , an initiative to articulate the issues facing one of the few pristine oceansites left on the planet.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780995137813
Published: 7 Oct 2021
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: Massey University Press
Publisher: Massey University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 250mm
Width: 190mm
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 485g
Pages: 96

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