Terrier, Worrier, 9781776711666
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Thoughts float: a poetic journey through family, chickens, and seasons.
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Terrier, Worrier

A Poem in Five Parts

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  • Paperback

    84 pages

  • Release Date

    11 June 2025

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Summary

“If sometimes I think of thoughts as being behind the eyes, sometimes I think of them more as floating, in a kind of cloud around the outside of my head.” Part autobiography of thought, part philosophical tract, part poetics, a book about chickens and family and seasons, Terrier, Worrier is a literary sequence to be relished as language and as thought.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781776711666
ISBN-10:1776711661
Author:Anna Jackson
Publisher:Auckland University Press
Imprint:Auckland University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:84
Release Date:11 June 2025
Weight:122g
Dimensions:190mm x 140mm x 7mm
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Critics Review

‘Terrier, Worrier is a remarkable and playful book on language, anxiety, poetry and the strangeness of being a person. I loved its short length especially, as well as its fragmentary form falling somewhere between a diary and a collection of poetic essays … wish more of my favourite poets wrote these kinds of books.’— Nina Mingya Powles

‘Terrier, Worrier is extraordinary, in both concept and form. It joins the conversations of great writers and thinkers, past and present, who analyse how we function aesthetically in our little lives.’— Anne Kennedy

About The Author

Anna Jackson

Anna Jackson is the author of seven collections of poetry as well as Diary Poetics: Form and Style in Writers’ Diaries 1915–1962 (2010) and Actions & Travels: How Poetry Works (2022). She lives in Island Bay, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, and is associate professor in English literature at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington.

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