BACK Before You Know
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ISBN 9780994112392
A new collection of poetry from major New Zealand writer Murray Edmond, featuring two exploratory long poems that play dice with tradition and engage in speculative history that might leave you wondering just how much you really know. Innovative in its twists on time-honoured conventions, this book is bizarre and accessible in equal measures.
Murray Edmond is known variously for his work as a poet, playwright and fiction writer, and as an editor, critic and dramaturge. His poetry collections Letters And Paragraphs, Fool Moon, and Shaggy Magpie Songs were finalists in the New Zealand book awards for poetry. Many of his poems have featured in journals and in anthologies. He has worked extensively in theatre as a writer, actor, director and dramaturge, notably for 20 years with Indian Ink’s Jacob Rajan and Justin Lewis on the creation of all that company’s scripts.
Published by Compound Press, 2019
Soft cover, 80 pages
120x210mm, upright
Printed and bound by Compound Press with 100% recycled materials
Wholesale $12.00
RRP $20.00
ISBN 9780994112392
A new collection of poetry from major New Zealand writer Murray Edmond, featuring two exploratory long poems that play dice with tradition and engage in speculative history that might leave you wondering just how much you really know. Innovative in its twists on time-honoured conventions, this book is bizarre and accessible in equal measures.
Murray Edmond is known variously for his work as a poet, playwright and fiction writer, and as an editor, critic and dramaturge. His poetry collections Letters And Paragraphs, Fool Moon, and Shaggy Magpie Songs were finalists in the New Zealand book awards for poetry. Many of his poems have featured in journals and in anthologies. He has worked extensively in theatre as a writer, actor, director and dramaturge, notably for 20 years with Indian Ink’s Jacob Rajan and Justin Lewis on the creation of all that company’s scripts.
Published by Compound Press, 2019
Soft cover, 80 pages
120x210mm, upright
Printed and bound by Compound Press with 100% recycled materials
Wholesale $12.00
RRP $20.00
ISBN 9780994112392
A new collection of poetry from major New Zealand writer Murray Edmond, featuring two exploratory long poems that play dice with tradition and engage in speculative history that might leave you wondering just how much you really know. Innovative in its twists on time-honoured conventions, this book is bizarre and accessible in equal measures.
Murray Edmond is known variously for his work as a poet, playwright and fiction writer, and as an editor, critic and dramaturge. His poetry collections Letters And Paragraphs, Fool Moon, and Shaggy Magpie Songs were finalists in the New Zealand book awards for poetry. Many of his poems have featured in journals and in anthologies. He has worked extensively in theatre as a writer, actor, director and dramaturge, notably for 20 years with Indian Ink’s Jacob Rajan and Justin Lewis on the creation of all that company’s scripts.
Published by Compound Press, 2019
Soft cover, 80 pages
120x210mm, upright
Printed and bound by Compound Press with 100% recycled materials
Praise
“The paired allegorical poetry tales in BACK Before You Know by Murray Edmond take on history and the perky fatalized body—as ‘The Fancier Pigeon’ sprightly-deathly observes, “The world is fixed / in ice and fire” and symmetry and entropy “go together / like two girls in a bar.” Edmond writes with a wry deliciousness in a pace from which one can’t turn away – we stop in the heart and we can’t stop anything in these forward cantering loops through fabled destiny. “
— Lisa Samuels (author of Foreign Native)
“Murray Edmond joins the rich tradition of late modernist folk poetry, which also includes Ed Dorn’s Gunslinger and Tom Pickard’s The Ballad of Jamie Allan. Wistful and riotous by turns, these two startling fables radiate with human warmth. They ring beautifully true.”
— Steven Toussaint (author of Lay Studies)
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