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Subject(s)

• New Zealand poetry [Browse]

Photographer

• Williams, William, 1858-1948 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Notes

"Young country is a book of poetry by twenty-first-century writer Kerry Hines alongside images by nineteenth-century photographer William Williams"--Publisher information.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• I. The old shebang:
• Three beds, candle extinguished
• Tom awake
• Iuniores ad labores
• The clerk
• Wellington
• Cuba St, homeward
• Alex
• Tom at board
• He dreams briefly
• Our friend best
• The beach
• Under Tom's dreams
• Etiquette
• Tom disappears from view
• ii. Never far from water:
• British Eden
• Shellycoat
• The nationalities
• River Hutt
• The picnic
• After the flood
• Crush
• Walking her home
• Civics
• The usual alternative
• The man who tried to kill himself with an axe
• The back of the property
• Brain-fever
• The widow
• The hallelujah lassie
• The maid
• The dock
• The prospector
• The night-soil man
• Smoko
• Lower reaches
• iii. Settlement:
• Settlement
• iv. Whakaki:
• Letters home
• Infrastructure
• Sarah
• The author in New Zealand
• Tuhara
• The lady is Miss Devereux
• The man who lived on beer
• Enclosure
• Neighbours
• Hunter Brown
• Dinner
• Factotum
• Uncos
• When the community changes faith
• Gossip
• The guest room.

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ISBN

• 9781869408237
• 1869408233

OCLC

889582494

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