The Yield

by Sue Wootton

Overview

Wootton addresses subjects as various as the fraught relationship between medical institutions and individual suffering, the disintegration of the polar icecaps, the energizing power of solitude and the rewarding demands of creativity and love. This is a collection about give and take, loss and gain; about sowing, tending and reaping. Sue Wootton brings her characteristic linguistic dexterity, exuberance and versatility to every page. The Yield is rich harvest.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780947522483
Publisher:	Otago University Press
Publication date:	08/01/2017
Pages:	100
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Sue Wootton has published five volumes of poetry and has received several awards, including the 2015 Caselburg Trust International Poetry Prize and second place in the 2013 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. She won the 2011 NZ Poetry Society International Poetry Competition and has twice won the Takahe Poetry Competition. Her first novel, Strip (Makaro Press, 2016), is longlisted for the fiction prize in the 2017 Ockham NZ Book Awards.

Table of Contents

Wild 11

A behoovement 12

Palaces 13

The needlework, the polishing 14

Mammatus 15

Picnic 16

Autumn voltage 17

Jar 18

How to paint a weeping woman 19

!Ford 20

Priest in a coffee shop 21

Ice diver 22

Speech 23

Lunch poem for Larry 24

Wasp 26

Pray 27

Under/Over 28

Dune din 29

Every hunter and forager 30

Admission 31

Unspooling 32

Miser 34

Report 35

Crime seen 36

Lingua incognita 37

Epitaph 38

Wintersight 39

Matariki in the Chinese Garden 40

Stepping across Zig Zag Bridge 41

New book 42

Forgiveness 43

Sea foam at Gemstone Beach 44

An international poetry festival in Vietnam 45

Strange monster 46

Barrel organ out of order 48

Abandoned stable, Matanaka 49

Three poems at the well:

i Wishes 50

ii Pipe dream 51

iii Golden balls 52

Of animals 53

A treatise on the benefits of moonbathing 54

Snow flurry on York Place 56

Bound 57

Graveyard poem 58

Central 60

At Hawea 61

Black Lake 62

Poem to my nearest galaxy 63

Daffodils 64

Calling 66

A day trip to the peninsula 67

Mist 72

The crop 73

Little shanty 74

Smeuse 76

Luthier 77

Living above the croquet club 78

The yield 79

Acknowledgements and notes 83

Editorial Reviews

"Wootton makes the words shimmy with fresh metaphors, the unspoken, the sound of the everyday." —Paula Green, NZ Books Autumn 2009

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