{"product_id":"new-collected-poems-images","title":"New \u0026 Collected Poems \u0026 Images","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Libre Baskerville';\"\u003ePoems \u0026amp; Images \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Libre Baskerville';\"\u003eis what it says on its striking cover: Rabbitt’s ‘spare, elegant, and, occasionally biting’, collected verse is published in concert with his visual work, made up of a ‘quirky’ type catalogue from the 1980s; 12 colourful typographic images, first exhibited in the 1990s; and 14 of his relatively recent photographs curated into a layered essay. The poems originate from his three ‘little’ books from the 1980s: the edgy \u003ci\u003eupagainstit;\u003c\/i\u003e the collaborative \u003ci\u003eOn The Line\u003c\/i\u003e, with Rabbitt’s poem sequence meditating on the line interwoven with artist Jane Pountney’s deft line drawings; the psychosexual \u003ci\u003ethewayofit,\u003c\/i\u003e also with Pountney’s line drawings; followed over three decades later by the ‘impressive’ \u003ci\u003ePrayers for the Living and the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, 2021, with drawings by artist Bodhi Vincent; and new and previously unpublished works.\u003ci\u003e Poems \u0026amp; Images \u003c\/i\u003ewas edited by acclaimed New Zealand author and Lasavia Publishing Ltd’s co-founder Mike Johnson, who provides a critical reading of Rabbitt’s body of work in his comprehensive introduction.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Libre Baskerville';\"\u003e‘Lindsay Rabbitt’s work is austere and uncompromising, yet warm; empathetic yet wry; tough yet tender. [...] In these poems you can feel language as a physical force, primal utterance, language as emergence. Their openness brings the reader in as a co-creator, sharer of the poet’s discoveries, participants in the poems’ enactments.’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Libre Baskerville';\"\u003eMike Johnson  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Libre Baskerville';\"\u003e‘Lindsay Rabbitt’s photographs have the simplicity and the concision of his poems; as well as their mysterious resonance [...] these images are enigmas which, when deciphered, do not lose their enigmatic quality. Rather, their power is augmented.’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Libre Baskerville';\"\u003eMartin Edmond\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44157715808453,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/Screenshot2024-11-08154046.png?v=1731033685","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/new-collected-poems-images","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}