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Time of the Icebergs

其他書名	Poems
出版	Otago University Press, 2010
主題	Poetry / GeneralPoetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshPoetry / Australian & Oceanian
ISBN	18775780299781877578021
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-EOxcQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Time of the Icebergs is a collection of poems about the world we live in, tracing a dystopian present "hurtling globalization's highway" where "Google tells Google that Google saves." As poet David Eggleton says, "I think of it as a collection for browsing and discovering things: soundscapes, seascapes, landscapes, contemporary politics and contemporary people, histories, traditions, and other things besides." Titles of poems reflect the absurdities of 21st-century existence: Kate Winslet Promotes a Credit Card riffs off an ad in the New Yorker, while Not for Human Consumption and Twenty Second Century hint at the ecological chaos of the modern world. Name-droppers, debt-dodgers, ghettoized gods, and "Vern Acular, that good keen bloke" all make an appearance. Poems set in Suva, Sydney, Christchurch, Auckland, and Dunedin locate this book firmly in the South Pacific. Eggleton traverses the country, from Cantabrian landscapes of "a geology sculpted into fists" and Dunedin "tipped out of