Latitudes Of Exile: Poems 1965-1975 by Michael Jackson

Latitudes of Exile is a selection of work from 1965 to 1975, and the acknowledgments show that most of the poems that had previously been published had their first printing in New Zealand periodicals. Jackson organized his first volume, as he did his fourth book, more by theme and subject than by chronology. The first ten of the thirty pieces are drawn from African experiences, the worlds the young poet observed first in the Congo (later Zaire and now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) and later in Sierra Leone. The subjects of the remaining score range from the recollection and celebration of Jackson's childhood and ancestral associations with Taranaki-a rural province of New Zealand, even now slightly remote from the metropolitan centers, that is dominated by its great mountain and by the coastline of the Tasman Sea—to scenes and situations in Auckland and metropolitan Europe.

Publisher:	J. McIndoe
Year:	1976
Binding:	Stapled
ISBN:	9780908565061
Condition:	Good
Description:	Cover worn, marked but otherwise good throughout.

This image is of the actual book.

SKU: 1581621
Location: NZ Poetry