Name: Manifesto Aotearoa
Brand: Otago University Press
SKU: 9780947522469
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Manifesto Aotearoa

101 Political Poems

Edited by: Philip Temple, Edited by: Emma Neale

Published by Otago University Press

In Stock

£20.50

Published: 01-Jul-2017
ISBN: 9780947522469

Hardback
184 Pages
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Subjects:
Poetry anthologies (various poets)

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A poem is a vote. It chooses freedom of imagination, freedom of critical thought, freedom of speech. A collection of political poems in its very essence argues for the power of the democratic voice. Here New Zealand poets from diverse cultures, young and old, new and seasoned, from the Bay of Islands to Bluff, rally for justice on everything from a degraded environment to systemically embedded poverty; from the long, painful legacy of colonialism to explosive issues of sexual consent. Communally these writers show that political poems can be the most vivid and eloquent calls for empathy, for action and revolution, even for a simple calling to account. American poet Mark Leidner tweeted in mid-2016 that A vote is a prayer with no poetry. Here, then, are 101 secular prayers to take to the ballot box in an election year. But we think this book will continue to express the nations hopes every political cycle: the hope for equality and justice. Two small but potent words. 101 potent poems. Stand up, write back!

"Philip Temple is an award-winning author of fiction and non-fiction, often on subjects associated with New Zealand history and the natural world. He also won an award for his influential writing on electoral reform during the 199293 MMP campaign. Philip was the recipient of the 2003 Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency and, earlier, held both the Menton Katherine Mansfield Fellowship and the Robert Burns Fellowship. He has received a Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement and been appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for his services to literature. www.philiptemple.com

Emma Neale, who lives in Dunedin, has published six novels and five poetry collections, and edited several anthologies. She is a former Robert Burns fellow (2012) and has received numerous awards and grants for her writing including the Janet Frame/NZSA Memorial Prize for Literature (2008), the University of Otago/Sir James Wallace Pah Residency (2014), and she was Philip and Diane Beatson/NZSA Writing Fellow in 2015. Neale was awarded the Kathleen Grattan Award for 2011 for her poetry collection The Truth Garden, and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and finalist for the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2017 for her novel Billy Bird. She has extensive experience as a literary editor and reviewer, and holds a PhD in New Zealand Literature from University College London (UK).