People from the Pit Stand Up

Author(s): Sam Duckor-Jones

Fiction

This is the voice of someone who is both at home and not at home in the world. Sam Duckor-Jones’s wonderfully fresh, funny, dishevelled poems are alive with art-making and fuelled by a hunger for intimacy. Giant clay men lurk in salons, the lawns of poets overgrow, petrolheads hoon along the beach, birds cry ‘wow-okay, wow-okay, wow-okay’. 


112 pages with flaps and illustrations throughout


Product Information

‘Gorgeous and contrary.’  —Jenny Bornholdt

‘If attention is an act of love, then this is a collection that attends to art and life in such a way as to collapse any distinction between the two.’  —Chris Price

Sam Duckor-Jones is a sculptor and poet who lives in Featherston. He won the Biggs Poetry Prize from Victoria University of Wellington in 2017. People from the Pit Stand Up is his first book.

General Fields

  • : 9781776561933
  • : Victoria University of Wellington Press
  • : Victoria University of Wellington Press
  • : May 2018
  • : .4 Inches X 6.75 Inches X 9.5 Inches
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Sam Duckor-Jones
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 821.3
  • : 112
  • : AMCR