Discover the compelling journey in 'Walking to Jutland Street', a remarkable poetry collection by Auckland poet Michael Steven. This brand new paperback edition, measuring 150 x 230 mm with 80 pages, invites you into a vivid world shaped by friendship and surreal experiences amidst Dunedin’s industrial backdrop. The collection beautifully weaves poetry about deep connections and the complexities of human emotions, portraying a gritty urban New Zealand reality. Each poem captures unique snapshots of life, from the inebriated wanderings of city inhabitants to tender moments of love and reminiscence. Poetry enthusiasts will appreciate the rich imagery and profound themes that echo through each page, making this book an essential read for anyone interested in contemporary New Zealand literature. Michael Steven’s voice resonates through these pages, influenced by literary giants and steeped in evocative language. 'Walking to Jutland Street' is not just a collection; it’s a reflective exploration of our shared human experience. Order now, and enjoy our combined shipping services for your convenience. As a New Zealand-owned entity, we ensure that all products are in stock locally, so you can experience seamless delivery without unexpected import charges or customs duties.

CONDITION: Brand New
Dimensions: 150 x 230 mm
Pages: 80
Bind: paperback
Author: Michael Steven Publisher: Otago University Press
Publication Date: 20-03-2018

Walking to Jutland Street is the impressive first book-length collection by up-and-coming Auckland-based poet Michael Steven. The title refers to Dunedin’s industrial wharf precinct where some of the poet’s friends shared a flat in 2010. A poem about friendship in the face of the other, ‘Walking to Jutland Street’ vividly recreates their evening ‘constitutional’ from the flat via the bridge over train tracks to the city and back, with its inebriated, surreal, sometimes nightmarish inhabitants. Other poems deliver snapshots of the human condition through bizarre personalities such as the subject of ‘Dropped Pin: Jollie Street’, ‘a man who proclaimed to function / best in a state close to coma’. Still others are tender love poems, travel poems (in 2016 the poet slept in the last bedroom of explorer Vasco da Gama), poems about family or childhood memory. A poet of gritty, day-to-day urban New Zealand reality (whether depicting teenage drug dealing, alcoholics or the night shelter), Steven is equally a writer steeped in literary tradition, Buddhist mysticism and world-historical narrative. His is a voice that aspires to capture quotidian experience or personality as a phenomenon implicitly of all times and places. In this pursuit, his literary cousins are Olds, Orr, Mitchell, Dickson, Johnson and Baxter.

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