BRUNTON, ALAN; EDMOND, MURRAY; LEGGOTT. MICHELE (EDS)
Big Smoke: New Zealand Poems 1960-1975
New Zealand, Auckland University Press. 2000, First Edition. (ISBN: 1869402308) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This anthology of New Zealand poetry in an energetic, iconoclastic and innovative period, draws on small magazines and obscure collections as well as better known work. The editors were major participants in the revolutionary scene, especially as founders of the magazine "Freed". The collection focuses on individual poems and on chronological dequence throughout the period so that poets are seen as part of a movement. Contains works by Janet Frame, Hone Tuwhare, David Mitchell, Peter Bland, Martyn Sanderson, Vanya Lowry, Bill Manhire, Sam Hunt, Alan Taylor, John MacNamara, Albert Wendt, Ian Weddeand numerous other New Zealand poets. CONDITION pp xii 344 with b/w phot photo illus including early Albert Park gatherings and illus from underground magazines. Covers are lightly handled o/w bright and crisp copy. OVERWEIGHT. Very Good/N/A.

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