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Gathering evidence / Caoilinn Hughes.

By: Hughes, Caoilinn, 1985- [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Wellington, New Zealand : Victoria University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 60 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780864739261.Subject(s): New Zealand poetry -- 21st centuryGenre/Form: New Zealand poetry -- 21st century.DDC classification: NZ821.3
Contents:
Avalanche -- Gathering evidence -- The transit of Venus -- Pacific Rim -- The moon should be turned -- King of the castle -- This is what makes it go bang -- Catechism -- Rational dress --On the content of brackets -- Looting roses -- Vagabond monologue -- Snake creeps through the grass -- The shell man -- Somatic cells -- Impressions of Ireland -- To the elements -- We are experiencing delay -- Two roundelets -- Every body continues in its state of rest -- Lucky -- Marbles -- Communion afternoon -- Cynophobia -- Playing house -- Dublin can be heaven -- Hames of a haiku -- Soldiers in the battle for hedonism -- Atmospheric physicist vs poetic atmosphericist -- Estuary -- Bruisewort -- Bolivian children -- A Peruvian blockade, according to Bolivia -- Altitude -- God always geometrises -- Harmony of the spheres -- Airbowing in second violins -- Watershed -- Is it a kind of bell toll? -- Legacy.
Summary: "With pinpoint accuracy, virtuosity and humour, Calilinn Hughes aligns scientific and poetic venturing. In this striking debut collection she focuses on moments of discovery, from the first controlled nuclear reaction, the shape of an avalanche as witnessed from its catchment area. These are epiphanies with consequences." -- Back cover.
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With pinpoint accuracy, virtuosity and humour, Caoilinn Hughes aligns scientific and poetic venturing. In this striking debut collection she focuses on moments of discovery, from the first controlled nuclear reaction to the shape of an avalanche as witnessed from its catchment area. These are epiphanies with consequences.

Avalanche -- Gathering evidence -- The transit of Venus -- Pacific Rim -- The moon should be turned -- King of the castle -- This is what makes it go bang -- Catechism -- Rational dress --On the content of brackets -- Looting roses -- Vagabond monologue -- Snake creeps through the grass -- The shell man -- Somatic cells -- Impressions of Ireland -- To the elements -- We are experiencing delay -- Two roundelets -- Every body continues in its state of rest -- Lucky -- Marbles -- Communion afternoon -- Cynophobia -- Playing house -- Dublin can be heaven -- Hames of a haiku -- Soldiers in the battle for hedonism -- Atmospheric physicist vs poetic atmosphericist -- Estuary -- Bruisewort -- Bolivian children -- A Peruvian blockade, according to Bolivia -- Altitude -- God always geometrises -- Harmony of the spheres -- Airbowing in second violins -- Watershed -- Is it a kind of bell toll? -- Legacy.

"With pinpoint accuracy, virtuosity and humour, Calilinn Hughes aligns scientific and poetic venturing. In this striking debut collection she focuses on moments of discovery, from the first controlled nuclear reaction, the shape of an avalanche as witnessed from its catchment area. These are epiphanies with consequences." -- Back cover.

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