& so the sun
beats the dullard
shambles
the door-stopped bricks
pushes down
on the collared neck
severs
in its intense weight
releasing us
from mannered fashions
of constraint.
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To purchase from Steele Roberts Publisher click image above. Or send an email to vgunson@xtra.co.nz to arrange purchase. The book includes a majority of poems not published on this webpage.
Poetry : Aotearoa New Zealand : Vaughan Gunson
Purchase poetry collection
To purchase from Steele Roberts Publisher click image above. Or send an email to vgunson@xtra.co.nz to arrange purchase. The book includes a majority of poems not published on this webpage.
"This is a book I've been keenly awaiting. We've printed a number of Vaughan's poems in Poetry New Zealand and I've come to admire and respect what he writes. His poems merge his concerns for the human and natural worlds into a unity that reflects the human condition and its expression in internal and external experience."
- Alistair Paterson, Poetry NZ editor, ONZM
"Vaughan Gunson's this hill, all it's about is lifting it to a higher level is a startling collection of poetry. Buoyed by Gunson's eye for the unusual and precise and his cadent tongue, the book mines new and familiar territory in surprising and exciting ways."
- Siobhan Harvey, Takahe poetry editor and National Poetry Day organiser
'Arts on Sunday' Radio NZ interview
With Lynn Freeman (9 Dec, 2012) about the new poetry collection this hill, all it's about is lifting it to a higher level
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Poems published in Blackmail Press, JAAM, New Zealand Listener, Poetry New Zealand, Red & Green, Side Stream, Stingray, Take Flight, Takahe, The Lumière Reader, UNITY Journal, Workers Charter, 52/250 A Year of Flash and 4th Floor Literary Journal.
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- after reading Sam Hunt’s poem ‘Better than this?’ (or why poetry is worthwhile) (1)
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- everyday (after Heather Hunt) (1)
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- I get paid well for this job (1)
- I want to sleep in a purple room (1)
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- our dog is like Frank O'Hara (1)
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- taking Burt Reynolds and Lonnie Anderson to the John Pilger photographic exhibition at the Auckland Museum (1)
- the answer to first questions (1)
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