Biter
Author(s): Claudia Jardine
Ancient Greek epigrams drive a bitingly contemporary first poetry collection.Filled with hickeys puttanesca and tart wit, BITER is an apt title for Claudia Jardine's debut collection of verse. Fresh translations of erotic Greek epigrams are threaded through boozy sonnets, ecstatic odes and startlingly vulnerable love poems. Jardine weaves ancient and modern together into a rich, glitzy, idiosyncratic tapestry - and in doing so crafts a poetic voice that is at once classical and frisky.
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Longlisted for Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2024 - the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry
Claudia Jardine has an MA in classics with distinction from Victoria University of Wellington, where she won the 2020 Alex Scobie Research Prize and a Marsden Grant for Masters scholarship. Her first chapbook, 'The Temple of Your Girl', was published in AUP New Poets 7. Her ancestors are from the British Isles and the Maltese Archipelago, and she lives in Otautahi. There are lots of wonderful things about living in Otautahi - for example, have you ever seen the royal spoonbill, or kotuku ngutupapa, feeding in the estuary at dusk? Marvellous.
General Fields
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- : Auckland University Press
- : Auckland University Press
- : 01 April 2023
- : 5.5 Centimeters X 12.9 Centimeters X 19.8 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Claudia Jardine
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 76