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Ten Thousand Nights

by Yvette Thomas

In Ten Thousand Nights, Auckland writer Yvette Thomas talks us through her world. She records the fluty praise of kōkako, the hiss of cats fighting on a roof, a mother’s song in Tagalog. She listens intently to the damaged, turning, murmuring earth—and doesn’t flinch, even when there was nothing to say / but everyone was talking.

 

This is a collection of hilarious love poems, gentle lyrics, raging polemics, blocky prose poems, laments and memorials, but also tyre-swinging poems, cloud poems, pepper-black night poems and neighbourly poems. Like a prickly creature curled up small, the poet looks death and worry in the face, tallies up her remaining days, and writes it all down.

 

Ten Thousand Nights is a light-stepping, hard-hitting, immensely appealing collection by the winner of the Caselberg International Poetry Prize.

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9780473730253

In Ten Thousand Nights, Auckland writer Yvette Thomas talks us through her world. She records the fluty praise of kōkako, the hiss of cats fighting on a roof, a mother’s song in Tagalog. She listens intently to the damaged, turning, murmuring earth—and doesn’t flinch, even when there was nothing to say / but everyone was talking.

 

This is a collection of hilarious love poems, gentle lyrics, raging polemics, blocky prose poems, laments and memorials, but also tyre-swinging poems, cloud poems, pepper-black night poems and neighbourly poems. Like a prickly creature curled up small, the poet looks death and worry in the face, tallies up her remaining days, and writes it all down.

 

Ten Thousand Nights is a light-stepping, hard-hitting, immensely appealing collection by the winner of the Caselberg International Poetry Prize.

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