The wild secrets of boyhood is where Lloyd Jones sets off in his first book of poetry intoxicated with images, and invoking dream spaces where language is forever in play.Lloyd Jones was seven years old the first time he climbed high into a grandstand to watch rugby with his father. The experience was baptismal. From his new elevated perspective Jones believed he could see everything that mattered a field of play that rolled out, green with promise, from suburban New Zealand to the wider world.The grandstand is a guiding metaphor for these questing narrative poems that reach back into childhood and forward into the life of a writer constantly experimenting with form and voice.Jones writes of the wild secrets of boyhood riding dogs, falling from trees, destroying the class ukuleles, learning to sail in small boats. He is alert to the airless smalltown grievances that must inevitably be escaped.As an aspiring young writer Jones travelled widely, testing his identity against difference places, people, politics and importantly, language.The more recent poems are a reassembling of coordinates and a return to the local view. The grandstand has long been decommissioned its a housing estate now, but the poems are full of air and greenery. Dream spaces where language is forever in play.

Binding: Paperback;118 pages; Publisher: Upswell Publishing Pty Ltd; Classification: N/A; Weight: 287.83 g; Dimensions: N/A

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