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Things Lay In Pieces![]() Stock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionOpens with a 13-poem sequence about the earthquake which struck Christchurch at 12.51 on February 22, 2011 killing 184 people. Table of contentsThe no. 3 bus -- The shake -- The homing instinct -- Everything is fractured -- Mrs Lee is open for business -- Two voices -- Toby's helmet -- The lists -- The lecturer -- Man in the bookshop -- What the hell? -- Constantine (3) -- My battered hat -- At Floriditas -- How to be a poet -- Aunts -- Learning to play pool -- Men in shirts -- Even you, Lou -- Brylcreem -- Women at rest -- Bushfire -- The woman who loves bar -- For mothers who wait on their sons -- Eating whitebait in the Motueka Valley -- Nuhaka -- Glad -- Tangi -- History -- Crossing the bridge at Pelorus -- After ten days of wind in Wellington -- Home movies -- High winds -- Beach poem -- Of this you know nothing -- My brother's orchard -- The lawnmower man -- The passing image -- The polish sisters -- The Italians -- Days -- The seamstress -- My cousin in Temuka -- Miscarriage -- Rain, Wanaka -- Born -- The gym -- What the birds said -- The wreck. |