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| Title: | Made for Weather
: Poems by Kay McKenzie Cooke |
| Author: | Kay McKenzie Cooke |
| ISBN: | 1877372498 : 9781877372490 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 140x210mm |
| Pages: | 60 |
| Weight: | .207 Kg. |
| Published: | University of Otago Press - July 2007 |
| List Price: | 13.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Works by individual poets: from c1900- |
Cooke's theme, like Robin Hyde's, is one of finding 'a home in this world': hers is an authentic poetry of place, with a fidelity to experience comparable to that of other more established poets such as Bernadette Hall or Brian Turner. Poems contain an array of striking images, developed from Cooke's exposure as a child and adolescent to the wind-whipped coastline of Orepuki, now a ghost town on the eastern fringe of Te WaewaeBay, near Fiordland. The passing of seasons features in the background of scenes which are dominated by ostensibly contemporary concerns such as a wild and woolly boyfriend, or collecting Toheroa. The poet has a gift for capturing people in day-to-day, incidental situations. Cooke has forged poetry out of common speech which synthesises unpretentiously the elemental energy at her fingertips.
