Shadow Play
James Norcliffe
Proverse Hong Kong
ISBN 9789881993588
Great South Road and South Side
Tony Beyer
Puriri Press
ISBN 9780908943395
Remnants
Leonard Lambert
Steele Roberts
ISBN 9781927242285
Curriculum Vitae
Harold Jones
Xlibris
ISBN 9781493137527 (e-book also available)
James Norcliffe is an award-winning writer, editor, and teacher who has published six collections of poetry. Published five years after his last collection, Shadow Play was a finalist for the annual international Proverse Prize in 2011. The collection is one of curiosity in action. In a generous preface, Bernadette Hall sums up the appeal of Norcliffe’s poetry: his “quick, clever, jinky words” and “gift for being seriously funny”. While Norcliffe excels at whimsy, the poems are also wry and accomplished, especially the exceptional “Lost in Nineveh”, “Ichthyosaurus” and “Towards the Mountain” (a poem for Pat Hammond).
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