Noh Business

by Murray Edmond

Cultural Writing. Drama. Murray Edmond's NOH BUSINESS is a skillful weave of his meditations on the Eastern Noh style of theatre and its connections with Western poetry and theatre. He includes in his discussions, the work of such artists as Brecht, Yeats, Pound, Koch, O'Hara, as well as the contemporary avant-garde of both theatre and poetry. Edmond ends with a collection of five of his own plays. This book "looks not at the Noh itself, but at Western meetings (mine and many others) with Noh...This book is about that fascination, through my eyes, as one who has been held in that fascination"--Murray Edmond.

174 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Born 1949, Edmond, Murray is a poet, playwright, editor and critic, and attended Hamilton Boys High School and the University of Auckland, where he completed his MA and PhD in English. He also edited the third and fourth issues of Freed 1970–71 and participated in alternative theatre groups, including Living Theatre and Beggars Bag Theatre. His first collection of poems, Entering the Eye (1973), incorporated ‘The Grafton Notebook’, a self-contained sequence which included his most anthologised poem, ‘Von Tempsky’s Dance’.

His last collection of poetry, Back Before You Know was published in 2019.

first paragraph extract from The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature.