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Year of Adverbs, The Smither, Elizabeth Eight years after her last prize-winning collection The Lark Quartet, this is a new book of poems from a major poet. The Year of Adverbs is full of the stuff of daily life, fizzing with personalities, alive with incidents and travelling from New Plymouth to Paris and back again. There is a wedding, a birth, several deaths and funerals as well as glimpses of Walter Raleigh, Fats Waller, Eliza Bennet, a car, a bicycle and a horse playing an accordion. Smither’s eye for unexpected likenesses, her verbal playfulness, her distinctive wit and style are apparent everywhere. The book ends with a delightful sequence of ‘little Parisian poems’ revelling in small details of that city and finishing, ‘Au revoir, bonne journee’. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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