Letters and Paragraphs: Poems

by Murray Edmond

Murray Edmond's fourth book of poems.

65 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1987

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.

Reviews

[Simon Sweetman · Rating 2 out of 5]

Odd, I usually love books of poems that I can't fucking understand a word of. Not this one though...