A Good Handful: Great New Zealand Poems About Sex

Author: Stu Bagby

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  • : $28.00 NZD
  • : 9781869404031
  • : Auckland University Press
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  • : 15 April 2008
  • : 210mm X 148mm
  • : New Zealand
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Description

In this collection New Zealand poets tackle sex from every angle. Sex can be funny, or disturbing. It can be ordinary, extraordinary, lusty or tender. Poets range from the classic to the contemporary and write from a variety of perspectives.

First published January 2008.

Reviews

"A handsome book that does indeed feel good to hold." --"Takahe"

Author description

Editor and poet Stu Bagby (known to some as the gravedigger poet) was born in Te Koporu in 1947. His work made up one third of AUP New Poets 2 and has published a solo collection As It Was in the Beginning (Steele Roberts) that was nominated by the Sunday Star Times as one of the best books of 2005. He was the winner of the 2000 New Zealand Poetry Society's International Poetry Competition.