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Sing-song / Anne Kennedy.

Title
Sing-song / Anne Kennedy.
Author
Kennedy, Anne, 1959-
Publication
Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2003.

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Description
128 p.; 20 cm.
Summary
"Anne Kennedy's first book of poetry deals with the domestic life of a family - mother, father, and two small children - but in particular the gruelling experience of eczema from which the little girl suffers. Told from the mother's point of view and set amid moves of house, the textures of a Maori/Pakeha household, and fruitless encounters with 'healers' of many kinds, Kennedy weaves a moving and profoundly recognisable picture of parenthood - its anxieties and joys, its fatigue - the contemporary situation of women and the power of love under harsh circumstances"--Jacket.
Subjects
Genre/Form
New Zealand poetry – 21st century.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Prologue: Da da -- The sing-song -- Myths and legends -- Going out, Grey Lynn -- Drift -- North-Western Motorway -- Epithalamium -- Consequence -- Spanner -- Turangawaewae -- Family planning association -- Life's important events are often veiled -- Order of preference -- Meantime -- Masked ball -- Thank you -- Plunket visits St. Helena -- Newborn baby -- Whenua (I) -- Art, Arch Hill -- Futures -- Her first archive -- Untitled -- All Souls, c.1964 -- Quack -- Lamentation -- Blackout -- Little lives, Leigh -- Shopping, Warkworth -- Advice -- And effect -- Jung -- The first rite -- Om -- Linguistics -- Readers and Fucking Writers Week -- Christening -- Prayer replacing sleep -- The Man She Wears on Her Back -- The anointing with steroid cream offered by the General Practitioner -- Lock and key -- Sparrows -- Do us a favour -- The magazine of white children -- The Cult of the Virgin -- Third rite -- Wyf of Bath -- Cataract -- Geology -- Holy War -- Cat Tales -- I Am (1) -- I Am (2) -- Wet patch -- Children's Section, Grey Lynn Library -- Yellow lava lava, Wellington -- Document -- I was a feminist in the eighties -- Nuclear winter -- Love Poem (1) -- Tarawera, fifth rite -- Untitled (too tired) -- Doubt -- The eczema-mother takes a part-time job -- Defence, Cheltenham -- Christ, not another rite! -- Whakapapa -- The Bells of Westminster -- Pacific -- Dragon Spleen (seventh rite) -- They are getting closer to God all the time -- Baby v. Homeopath -- Love poem (2) -- What Happened Next Door -- Outlook for Monday -- Millennium -- Witchy -- Red shoes -- Realm, New Lynn -- What he saw -- Well -- Whenua (2) -- Epilogue: I tell you solemnly.
ISBN
1869402952
OCLC
  • 53234464
  • SCSB-11760435
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library