Rawaho

The Completed Poems

Rawaho
David Howard
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15 Aug 2022 NZ
9780473619978
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Rawaho: outsider, foreigner. In the poet' s words: "Many uncollected pieces served as preparatory studies for these 150 titles. Since my first tentative airing of the early drafts in 1991 there have been regular staging posts, in 2001 and 2011 respectively-the latter (The Incomplete Poems) with a note from Brian Turner: "When David Howard calls his work ' incomplete' he is, I think, reminding us that just about everything, not just poems, is work in progress; hence ' incomplete' . " And that still seems true, or at least no less true than it seemed then. What has changed with age ("decades destroy / your eye' s glister") is my ability to hold indefinitely the weight of inchoate drafts. This book has thousands of lines but in making it I am drawing one line. Another decade has gone, I' m done. This is the best I can do. " Kapka Kassabova has written: "Howard' s greatest lyrical power is in apprehending the elusive. His is a poetry of the vanishing, of the shifting elsewhere, of loss lurking within the moment . . . the cerebral blends with the visceral with a brilliant lightness of touch. "
Born in 1959, David Howard co-founded the literary journal Takahe (1989) and the Canterbury Poets Collective (1990) in his home town, Christchurch. He has collaborated with visual artists such as the photographer Fiona Pardington and the painter Kim Pieters; contributed to Art New Zealand; provided libretti for the composers Sofia Filyanima (Russia), Brina Jez (Slovenia), Marta Jirackova (Czech Republic), and Johanna Selleck (Australia). He was the editor of A Place To Go On From: the Collected Poems of Iain Lonie (Otago University Press, 2015). The writing of Rawaho: the Completed Poems has been supported by the Robert Burns Fellowship at Otago University (2013); the Otago Wallace Residency (2014); a UNESCO City of Literature Residency in Prague (2016); the Ursula Bethell Residency at Canterbury University (2016); the Writers' House Residency, Pazin, Croatia (2017); the Grimshaw Sargeson Residency (2018); and a UNESCO City of Literature Residency in Ulyanovsk (2019).
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ISBN-13: 9780473619978
Published: 15 Aug 2022
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: Cold Hub Press
Publisher: Cold Hub Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 235mm
Width: 178mm
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 640g
Pages: 344

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