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    All Cretans are Liars and Other Poems

    By Anne French

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    The poems in All Cretans are Liars are written for friends, lovers, for a small son, for explaining solitude or betrayal – they start out this way but soon take on their own life and walk out to meet us. Anne French sees her poems as small fictions, where intense personal experiences are crafted into elegant and ironic artefacts. This voice is warm, honest and sophisticated. All Cretans are Liars is an accomplished first collection by a poet who became a leading New Zealand voice.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuckland University Press
    Release dateOct 1, 2013
    ISBN9781775580126
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    All Cretans are Liars and Other Poems
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    Anne French

    Poet, publisher, and sailor Anne French is the author of six previous poetry collections with Auckland University Press, including All Cretans Are Liars, winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry and the PEN Award for First Book of Poetry in 1988, and Boys’ Night Out, a finalist in the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. French had an extensive career in publishing with Oxford University Press before founding Te Papa Press in 1996. Later she moved into science funding. She now works as a consultant on R&D strategy and management, and is an associate at NZIER.

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