{"product_id":"respirator-a-poet-laureate-collection-2019-2022-poetry-david-eggleton","title":"Respirator: A Poet Laureate Collection 2019–2022 Poetry - David Eggleton","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRespirator\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a sumptuous celebration of David Eggleton’s tenure as the nation’s poet-at-large during his time as Aotearoa NZ Poet Laureate (2019–22).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this collection of probing, kaleidoscopic and richly sensuous poems, Eggleton explores how the social changes and upheavals of the past four extraordinary years manifested in Aotearoa New Zealand, from the impact of living through a pandemic to ecological concerns, technological changes, and shifting viewpoints about identity and global consumerism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eRespirator\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003estands as a powerful artistic record of an unprecedented historical moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAustralia’s heat map in January\u003cbr\u003eglowed every which way, red, purple, black,\u003cbr\u003eand our skies were made yellow by trans-Tasman smoke,\u003cbr\u003ewhile scarcely less fraught were dog days of February,\u003cbr\u003eas arrivals drifted through airport duty-free,\u003cbr\u003ein a haze of competing perfume spritzes,\u003cbr\u003eand reports came of a strange virus out of Wuhan,\u003cbr\u003epale horse and pale rider.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— ‘Rāhui: Lockdown Journal’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Eggleton\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Rotuman Fijian\/Tongan\/Pākehā) has published ten previous poetry collections. He is a six-time winner of the Montana Reviewer of the Year, and a former Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago. He received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in poetry in 2016, the same year that The Conch Trumpet won the Poetry Award at the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. From 2009–17, Eggleton was editor of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLandfall\u003c\/em\u003e. He received the 2018 Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writers’ Residency and served as the New Zealand Poet Laureate 2019–22.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"is-hidden__small\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"EmmasatOxford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43396445634714,"sku":"","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0013\/9024\/8009\/products\/respirator.jpg?v=1678310384","url":"https:\/\/emmasatoxford.pro\/products\/respirator-a-poet-laureate-collection-2019-2022-poetry-david-eggleton","provider":"EmmasatOxford","version":"1.0","type":"link"}