Dandy Bogan brings one of New Zealand's most distinctive poets to the rest of the world for the first time. Nick Ascroft's poems display a familiarity with the furthest reaches of the Scrabble dictionary, and even somewhat beyond. His logo-philia evinces a fascination not merely with language but with the workings of the human mind. Ranging across a dazzling variety of subject matter, Ascroft's abiding interest and concern is what...
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