Coming Ashore
Peter Bland

	Art & Poetry Relationships, Kiwiana, Poetry Price: $19.99 Availability: now Format: 72 pages, A5, soft cover ISBN: 978-1-877577-49-9 Add this book to your shopping bag

About the Book

Award-winning poet and a distinguished actor Peter Bland was born in Yorkshire and emigrated to New Zealand in 1954. 

In this new collection he continues ‘to give the world back to itself’ with insight, energy and tact.

The Times Literary Supplement describes his poetry as ‘vivid, witty, and original’ — accessible and colloquial, this is the perfect introduction to poetry.

From a recent review in the Listener:
Are these an old man’s poems? The answer is ... obvious. If you judge by content and themes then, yes, of course, they’re an old man’s poems. How could they be anything else? But if you judge by pithiness of expression, sharpness of observation and keenness of wit, there’s no hardening of the arteries. These poems are bright as polished glass.

About the Author

Other books by Peter:
* Ports of Call
* Let's Meet
* Mr Maui's Monologues
* Loss
* Starkey the Gentle Pirate
* Collected Poems 1956–2011
* Breath Dances