Keith Westwater, Tongues of Ash (2011)

Keith Westwater: Tongues of Ash (2011)

There's a no-nonsense specificity about Keith Westwater's poems, a refusal to privilege the smooth over the roughnesses of human experience. He provides a chart of his significant spaces - literally as well as figuratively: the book begins with an annotated map of New Zealand, with Wellington as a special insert - which has room for romantic and family love, weather, landscapes, rocks and history.

(13/4/11)

Keith Westwater, Tongues of Ash (Brisbane: Interactive Press, 2011): back-cover blurb.

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Keith Westwater: Tongues of Ash (2011)


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