Bøger af Michael Steven

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Winner of the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2021, poet Michael Steven's Night School explores the gap between fathers and sons, the effects of toxic masculinity, how power corrupts and corrodes, and whether weed, art, and aroha can save us in a godless world.

Walking to Jutland Street is the impressive first book-length collection by up-and-coming Auckland-based poet Michael Steven. The title refers to Dunedin's industrial wharf precinct where some of the poet's friends shared a flat in 2010. A poem about friendship in the face of the other, "Walking to Jutland Street" vividly recreates their evening "constitutional" from the flat via the bridge over train tracks to the city and back, with its inebriated, surreal, sometimes nightmarish inhabitants. Other poems deliver snapshots of the human condition through bizarre personalities such as the subject of "Dropped Pin: Jollie Street," "a man who proclaimed to function / best in a state close to coma." Still others are tender love poems, travel poems, poems about family or childhood memory. A poet of gritty, day-to-day urban New Zealand reality (whether depicting teenage drug dealing, alcoholics, or the night shelter), Steven is equally a writer steeped in literary tradition, Buddhist mysticism, and world-historical narrative. His is a voice that aspires to capture quotidian experience or personality as a phenomenon implicitly of all times and places. In this pursuit, his literary cousins are Olds, Orr, Mitchell, Dickson, Johnson, and Baxter.