Songs of the City
ISBN:
978-0-473-36566-0
Price:
$30.00
Extent:
86 pages
Format:
152mmx189mm
Publisher:
HeadworX
Cover
image: Photo by MaryJane Thomson
The poems in MaryJane Thomson’s third collection, Songs
of the City, continue to develop her highly original poetic since her first
two collections Fallen Grace and Lonely Earth announced the
arrival of an exciting new talent in New Zealand poetry.
Songs of the City features a mix of longer and
shorter poems grouped by thematic links: Finding Your Light (Big Issue
poems), Watch (faith and spiritual poems), Funny Sun Kissed Fantasy
(love poems) and Conversations and Songs (music and letter poems).
Songs of the City explores contemporary issues and
offers a generational assessment of a technologically driven world. With soul,
energy and a probing mind, Thomson’s is an alert and urgent voice.
About the Author
MaryJane Thomson, a Wellington writer, artist and
photographer, is the author of the memoir Sarah Vaughan is Not my Mother
(Awa Press, 2013), the poetry sequence Fallen Grace (HeadworX/The Night
Press, 2014) and the full-length collection Lonely Earth (HeadworX,
2015). Her poetry is featured in Outcryer (USA) and has appeared in Black
Mail Press, Valley Micropress, broadsheet, and other places.
Thomson’s second collection Lonely Earth has been
widely reviewed and acclaimed in the Otago Daily Times, Landfall,
Booksellers NZ Blog and Takahē. Her first book, a memoir, featured
on Kim Hill, Radio NZ.
Songs of the City will be launched at Unity Books
Wellington on Tuesday 27 September 2016.
Comment on Thomson’s Songs of the City:
“MaryJane Thomson has a raw unorthodox voice. You mightn't
agree with everything she says in her poems but she certainly demands attention
and makes the reader think. She is outspoken and direct and her poems range
widely through contemporary life.” – Fiona Kidman
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