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Painted Poems ISBN: 9781877361845 Release: 11-2007 Subject: NZ Art, Poetry Format: Paperback RRP: NZ$34.99 |
‘A Stevens painting … is a collage of shapes that balance one another like a house of cards in a very still room awaiting a breeze … DAVID EGGLETON
Painted Poems is like the best of warm, intelligent conversation: playful, yet searching and unafraid to confront the dark. Here Eion Stevens, one of our foremost painters, converses on the page with a selection of New Zealand’s most-loved poets.
Sometimes the writers have been urged into words by Stevens’ imagery. Sometimes Stevens has created a painting in response to a poem. the result is a visual carnival, where angels rub shoulders with ancestral ghosts, where soldiers and insomniacs collide, where memory and theatre embrace.
Stevens’ images reveal a sidelong sense of humour, a smart social commentary and often a disarming combination of irony and tenderness.
With an introduction by the award-winning poet and critic David Eggleton, Painted Poems artfully records a fertile exchange across two art forms.
Featuring work by poets as diverse as Jenny Bornholdt, C K Stead, Lauris Edmond, Katherine Mansfield, Denis Glover … and more.
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Reviewers Comments ...
‘Painted Poems artfully records a fertile exchange across two art forms.’ - KidsLife Website, 2008 ‘A sumptuous production by Longacre Press on high-quality paper does justice to both poetry and painting.’ - Waikato Times, 2008 |
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