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The Lifers
From Sean Macgregor's lounge occupied by stoned youths to three bank robbers en route to the Penrose ANZ, Michael Steven's second collection presents his clear, clean vision of 'the lifers' who inhabit these islands and beyond. A generation's subterranean memories of post-Rogernomics New Zealand are a linking thread in the decades straddling the millennium, while other poems echo with the ghostly voices of the dead, disappeared and forgotten. Steven's writing neither patronises nor romanticises in its intricate depictions of small worlds of violence, despair, love, and struggle. Always it refers back to the redemption of human connection as its magnetic pole.
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The Lifers
From Sean Macgregor's lounge occupied by stoned youths to three bank robbers en route to the Penrose ANZ, Michael Steven's second collection presents his clear, clean vision of 'the lifers' who inhabit these islands and beyond. A generation's subterranean memories of post-Rogernomics New Zealand are a linking thread in the decades straddling the millennium, while other poems echo with the ghostly voices of the dead, disappeared and forgotten. Steven's writing neither patronises nor romanticises in its intricate depictions of small worlds of violence, despair, love, and struggle. Always it refers back to the redemption of human connection as its magnetic pole.
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by Michael Steven
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Overview

From Sean Macgregor's lounge occupied by stoned youths to three bank robbers en route to the Penrose ANZ, Michael Steven's second collection presents his clear, clean vision of 'the lifers' who inhabit these islands and beyond. A generation's subterranean memories of post-Rogernomics New Zealand are a linking thread in the decades straddling the millennium, while other poems echo with the ghostly voices of the dead, disappeared and forgotten. Steven's writing neither patronises nor romanticises in its intricate depictions of small worlds of violence, despair, love, and struggle. Always it refers back to the redemption of human connection as its magnetic pole.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781988592480
Publisher: Otago University Press
Publication date: 03/31/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 92
File size: 447 KB

About the Author

Michael Steven is the author of the acclaimed Walking to Jutland Street (Otago University Press, 2018). He was recipient of the 2018 Todd New Writer’s Bursary, and his poems were shortlisted for the 2019 Sarah Broom Poetry Prize. He lives and writes in West Auckland. Michael Steven is the author of the acclaimed Walking to Jutland Street (Otago University Press, 2018). He was recipient of the 2018 Todd New Writer's Bursary, and his poems were shortlisted for the 2019 Sarah Broom Poetry Prize. He lives and writes in West Auckland.

Table of Contents

Back in the Day 9

The 8:50 Freighter from Picton

Tower: 1996 13

Dropped Pin: Church Street, Penrose, Auckland 15

The 8:50 Freighter from Picton 20

Dropped Pin: Omitted Entries 26

A Brief History of Treason

Strains: Big Bud 35

Dropped Pin: Brooklyn, New York 36

Yellow Plums 38

A Brief History of Treason 45

Strains: Silver Pearl 46

Dropped Pin: Three Lamps, Ponsonby 47

Leviathan 49

Strains: NY Sour Diesel 57

The Old Town 58

After Trakl 64

The Swallows

Strains: Shiva Shanty 67

At Eastern Southland 68

2013 71

Strains: UK Cheese 74

The Swallows 76

Dropped Pin: Changi Airport, Singapore 78

Reading to My Son 80

Dropped Pin: Woodhill Forest, Muriwai 84

Summer/Haszard Road 86

My Friend 87

Ranui 88

Late Pastoral 89

Acknowledgement 91

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