Isbn: 9780748662784 - the powerlines (poetry technologies) (2 Ergebnisse)

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Original Wraps. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. Paperback Original. ***Very good in colour-illustrated wrappers. Orange colour on spine and the margins of the wrappers near the spine faded to yellow. Pages clean and bright. Spine tight. ***x prelims-pages plus map to fore of New Zealand plus 98 pages including family tree and notes to rear. 216 x 138 mm. ***'The Powerlines chronicles the author's ancestors' emigration from Scotland to New Zealand - two small, geographically distant countries, united in this lyrical poetry and prose collection which offers both a personal and poetic encounter with history and place. ***Through a sequence of linked poems and prose, and drawing on paintings, photographs and landscape, The Powerlines presents the reader with a powerful, adventurous and technically accomplished collection which is emotionally charged and filled with voices - the ancestral voices of family, childhood, women and emigrant Scots. Exploring and questioning identity, Fellows' poetry charts our ever changing relationship to history, to the land and the changing environment, and to the transforming and often destructive power of technology. **Gerri Fellows was born in 1954 in Roxburgh, Otago, New Zealand, of Scottish descent. Her family moved to England in 1963, and Gerrie now lives in Glasgow. The Powerlines is her second poetry collection.' (Quote from rear wrapper blurb). ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…