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Alan Roddick
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28 Feb 2022 NZ
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9781990048319
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Writing from the eighth and ninth decades of his life, Alan Roddick' s third collection of poetry, Next, examines the past, observes the present and speculates on the future. Anchored in the action of daily life - whether it be a ride in a mirrored elevator or a roadside conversation with a friend - his poems speak of migration, family, friendship, aging and mortality. Next is marked by a rare blend of uncompromising vision and deep compassion. Here is poetry that delights in warmth, humour, wit and grace, that revels in the beauty of the world, that insists on ' anticrepuscular rays' at twilight even as it' s asking the niggling question: ' Tomorrow, though? . . . '
Alan Roddick was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and emigrated to New Zealand in 1952. He is the literary executor for Charles Brasch and has edited numerous books including CharlesBrasch: Selected Poems (OUP, 2015). Next is Roddick' s third book of poetry: his first collection,The Eye Corrects, was published in 1967 and was followed 49 years later with Getting It Right(OUP, 2016).

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