Incognito

by Le Bas, Jessica

• ISBN13: 9781869403928
• ISBN10: 1869403924
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-01
• Publisher: Auckland University Press

Summary

This engaging collection of poetry, split into six sections and written in an intimate and affectionate tone, is wonderfully diverse. The lyrical poems address issues that run the gamut from family, friends, and domestic situations; to children's perception of the world; the seashore; and political situations based on the author's experience as a United Nations worker in the former Yugoslavia. Winner, NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry 2008

Author Biography

Jessica Le Bas is a writer whose work has been published in numerous magazines such as Just Another Art Movement (JAAM), The Listener, North & South, and Takahe. She was the winner of the New Zealand Poetry Society's 2003 Poetry Competition and the 2005 Bravado Poetry Competition. She is also the coordinator of the Nelson/Golden Bay Poetry Writing Group.

Table of Contents

Another country	p. 2
The PM comes to school	p. 3
Dead Horse Pinch	p. 4
The footpath	p. 5
HALP	p. 6
A 'not fair' poem about lice	p. 7
Enlightenment	p. 10
My mother's birthday	p. 11
There's a love	p. 12
Old haunts	p. 13
For that extra distance	p. 14
What I didn't say to the doctor	p. 15
Trig point	p. 17
A bloody good story	p. 20
Love & lunch	p. 21
Man at Oturehua	p. 22
Perhaps the caravan park	p. 23
A long way from Moscow	p. 24
Currency	p. 26
Two women walking	p. 27
Weight	p. 28
A mathematician talks to me of imaginary numbers	p. 29
The brown hen	p. 30
Anticipation	p. 31
Winter night, Moutere	p. 32
And the Hawkdun Range behind	p. 33
A cold spell	p. 36
Lessons	p. 37
Inventories	p. 38
Incognito, my love	p. 39
Incarnate on the coastline of night	p. 41
In which we don't go to the movies	p. 42
Two angels	p. 43
In the umbrella house	p. 44
And I have something to expiate	p. 45
House at Malindi	p. 50
Life vest under your seat	p. 52
Through Shenandoah	p. 53
Journey south	p. 54
Sheep near Pigeon Rock	p. 56
Near Ian's place	p. 57
Towards Devil's Peak	p. 58
Last leaf	p. 59
Inter-loan	p. 62
Death on the rainbow road	p. 63
Holy war declared	p. 65
Osama bin Laden sleeps	p. 66
Another Zagreb	p. 67
Refugee	p. 68
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