Slim Volume

James Brown

Slim Volume
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Country
NZ
Published
11 July 2024
Pages
96
ISBN
9781776922017

Slim Volume

James Brown

A slim volume of verse, like a bicycle, offers us fresh and joyful and sometimes troubling ways of seeing the world. James Brown's eighth collection of poems begins in childhood and moves through education, jobs and the essential unremarkable activities that occupy our lives - before arriving in a post-apocalyptic future, where the nights run late and down to the wire. The poems are ever-alert to the minutiae of power, the thrill of the unexpected, and the shiny potential of an ending. Always compelling, funny, heartening, Brown speaks volumes even when claiming to have little to say. 'James Brown makes the process of reading feel effortless, but always rewards active attention. Like Stevie Smith, he can sometimes seem to be waving and drowning at the same time.' -Bill Manhire, North & South

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