Time of the Icebergs: Poems: Poems by David Eggleton - Softcover

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Time of the Icebergs is a collection of poems about the world we live in, tracing a dystopian present "hurtling globalization's highway" where "Google tells Google that Google saves." As poet David Eggleton says, "I think of it as a collection for browsing and discovering things: soundscapes, seascapes, landscapes, contemporary politics and contemporary people, histories, traditions, and other things besides." Titles of poems reflect the absurdities of 21st-century existence: Kate Winslet Promotes a Credit Card riffs off an ad in the New Yorker, while Not for Human Consumption and Twenty Second Century hint at the ecological chaos of the modern world. Name-droppers, debt-dodgers, ghettoized gods, and "Vern Acular, that good keen bloke" all make an appearance. Poems set in Suva, Sydney, Christchurch, Auckland, and Dunedin locate this book firmly in the South Pacific. Eggleton traverses the country, from Cantabrian landscapes of "a geology sculpted into fists" and Dunedin "tipped out of a colonial toy-box" to North Island summer idylls where one could "follow a jiggle-string of beach pulled taut by the soaraway kite of blue sky." This is no mere intellectual exercise, as through it all thrums the steady beat of life.

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