Dandy Bogan: Selected Poems

Brings one of New Zealand's most distinctive poets to the rest of the world for the first time. Nick Ascroft's poems display a familiarity with the furthest reaches of the Scrabble dictionary, and even somewhat beyond. This logophilia evinces a fascination not merely with language but with the workings of the human mind. As the poems range across a dazzling variety of subject matter, Ascroft's abiding interest and concern is what it means to be human. Who are we? How did we get here? And wh...