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Cochrane Geoff
In his new collection, Geoff Cochrane defies his own advice to disappear. Instead, he traces wry, darkly glittering lines from odd fragments, encounters, overheard conversations, and moments of absurdity and…
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Geoff Cochrane
Featuring a sequence of poems on the life of eccentric French composer Erik Satie, this collection confidently builds on the poet’s earlier efforts. Still present, however, are the lush and…
Inspired by the moment in which the sleeping brain is so convinced the body is falling that it sends out the limbs to catch itself, the innovative poems in this…
A selection of insightful and poignant poems, this collection reminisces with poise and candour about the author’s life in Wellington, Catholic upbringing, derelict acquaintances, the challenges of giving up drinking…
‘Geoff Cochrane’s is a whole world, rendered in lines at once compressed and open, mysterious and approachable.’ - Damien Wilkins. Geoff Cochrane’s new book is a bracing and invigorating distillation…
Brings together award-winning poet and author Geoff Cochrane’s two slim volumes of short stories, originally published in limited editions, his early novella Quest Clinic, and more recent stories.
Illuminating personal trials and triumphs against the backdrop the author’s home city of Wellington, New Zealand, this title describes a world of jagged and narrow rocks, and shelter from the…
Wonky Optics is Geoff Cochrane’s fifteenth collection of poems. The Cochrane tone is one of the great pleasures in our literature - and somehow sweeter for appearing not to be…
The Black and the White is a new work - witty, fearless, formidably concise - from one of the most distinctive voices in New Zealand poetry.
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Each and every day, at some point on our walk, he stops and lets me know that this is today’s person, the party he wants to be introduced to. Chosen…
Geoff Cochrane (1951-2022) was a poet and fiction writer who was born in Wellington and lived there almost all his life.
In this new collection of poems, a moving sequence on the death of the poet’s father spurs the themes of loss and need, unconsummated love, and life at the very…
