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    Boys' Night Out

    By Anne French

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    The first new collection for five years from prize-winning poet Anne French. She writes about personal relationships better than any other New Zealand poet and the brutal honesty, the wit, the structural elegance of these new poems show once again her mastery of this territory.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateNov 1, 2013
    ISBN9781775585169
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    Boys' Night Out
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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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