The long road to teatime
Auckland University Press, 2000
Anna Jackson’s first solo collection of poems, The Long Road to Teatime, opened a door into the world of family. The Long Road to Teatime includes six playful, warm and allusive sequences, literary variations on domestic life, domestic takes on literature. It mixes the literary, the domestic and the political with ease and assurance, the different facets united by a very individual tone, by an ability to surprise and by a sense of delight and amusement which makes the poems a great pleasure to read.
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Anna Jackson’s first solo collection of poems, The Long Road to Teatime, opened a door into the world of family. The Long Road to Teatime includes six playful, warm and allusive sequences, literary variations on domestic life, domestic takes on literature. It mixes the literary, the domestic and the political with ease and assurance, the different facets united by a very individual tone, by an ability to surprise and by a sense of delight and amusement which makes the poems a great pleasure to read.
Buy The long road to teatime
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“In the middle of our journey / we found ourselves lost. / This is the jungle, said Johnny. / Rose asked if we had a map. / Not a road map, said Simon. / So what sort do you have? / We looked for a life map." |
"In her first book, Anna Jackson writes risky poems – simple, seemingly transparent, close to bland at times. Joyous and celebratory, too, especially in the several that focus on her family. But none sags and, in the title sequence, there is macabre steel beneath the narrator’s innocence." – Guy Allan, NZ Herald
"You could see these poems as bone carvings made from the remains of short stories: gripping narratives, reduced to the purest, most elegant minimum" - David Larsen, The Dominion
"The Long Road to Teatime, has met with gushing critical acclaim, marking Jackson as one of our most promising poets.
Her themes tend to be domestic, but she has a knack for clattering the teacups by adding unexpected snatches of grim reality to her poetry - violence in East Timor, global economics, environmental destruction. " Eleanor Black, New Zealand Herald.
"You could see these poems as bone carvings made from the remains of short stories: gripping narratives, reduced to the purest, most elegant minimum" - David Larsen, The Dominion
"The Long Road to Teatime, has met with gushing critical acclaim, marking Jackson as one of our most promising poets.
Her themes tend to be domestic, but she has a knack for clattering the teacups by adding unexpected snatches of grim reality to her poetry - violence in East Timor, global economics, environmental destruction. " Eleanor Black, New Zealand Herald.
