| Young Country Contributor(s): Hines, Kerry (Author) |
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ISBN: 1869408233 ISBN-13: 9781869408237 Publisher: Auckland University Press OUR PRICE: $26.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Australian & Oceanian - History | Australia & New Zealand - General |
| Dewey: 811 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.5" W x 8.5" (1.40 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Oceania - Cultural Region - Australian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is a collection of poetry by 21st-century writer Kerry Hines, alongside images by 19th-century photographer William Williams. The wry, plainspoken but haunting poems sit alongside evocative photographs of settlement: landscapes, streetscapes, skyscapes; the escapades of a trio of flatmates; portraits of family and friends; burned bush and rising buildings. The book features many figures: Williams and his housemates Tom and Alex; ethnographer Elsdon Best; notorious criminals and the judges who sentenced them; the mythic creature Shellycoat who accompanied the Scottish settlers; wives, prostitutes, and "hallelujah lassies"; and visiting professor Robert Wallace, who cast an outsider view on this new society. Together, the stunning photographs and poems of Young Country offer a meditation on how we capture the present and re-present the past, on the parallels between building a community and authoring a text, and on the possibilities that expansive fiction offers to documented truth. |