© Cold Hub Press 2011
Price NZ$18.50
Apocrypha
Stephen Oliver
ISBN: 978-0-473-17044-8
Softcover chapbook. 20pp
A chapbook of twelve poems by a poet Dr Nicholas Reid described
in his review of Harmonic, Oliver’s last major collection of poetry,
as “really located in something that comes after modernism, something
that is committed in ways that ‘post-modernism’ is not, but for which
we currently have no term.” Apocrypha sounds a deeper register in
geologic time. The brilliant image is now restrained.
A work of measured, architectonic beauty & power.
And there it was, regular and regulated, punching its way through
the constellation Sagittarius. Another Wow! Signal.
Until now, a desolation of stars and a hardness
of light. The silence between broken at last on one
narrowband energy spike.
(“Another Wow! Signal”)
Stephen Oliver, back in New Zealand after twenty years in Sydney, is the author of fifteen titles of poetry. He has published creative non-fiction in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian / New Zealand Literature. His latest collection of poetry is titled HARMONIC, from Interactive Publications, Brisbane, 2008. Interactive Digital (IP) released the KING HIT CD - poems written and read by Stephen Oliver to music composed by Matt Ottley, November 2007.
‘From the first poem “Dreams of flying” it is evident we are in the presence of an acutely sensitive poet whose powers of expression and clarity of vision are equally matched …. If Oliver is fighting for forms and attitudes which seem out of step with the dominant trends of contemporary poetry, he is doing it with a firm grasp of poetic form, with skill, and with his own sublime elegance of imagery, sound and phrasing.’
- Patricia Prime, Takahe 71
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Apocrypha
Stephen Oliver
