Selected Poems: Geoff Cochrane

This Selected Poems presents the best of Geoff Cochrane’s many published collections, from Aztec Noon (1992) to Chosen (2020).

‘Geoff Cochrane’s is a whole world, rendered in lines at once compressed and open, mysterious and approachable.’ —Damien Wilkins

‘Over the years, Cochrane’s work has been a joy to me, a solace, a proof that art can be made in New Zealand which shows ourselves in new ways.’ —Pip Adam

‘Everyone reading local poetry has, or should have, a Geoff Cochrane moment, a blissful book in which they discover his compressed, “courtly” (as Damien Wilkins once described Geoff’s writing) poetry mined from his singularly Wellington life, past and present. . . . He was intense, committed, thoughtful, isolated and, in his own way, courageous.’ —James Brown

‘Would he break your heart, make you chuckle or tear you a new one – one never quite knew. . . . He had this way of creating a moment of meeting that elided everything else, a calm where all our antennae raised as one and you never knew what would come out of his mouth, or his work.’ —Carl Shuker

Format: Hardback
Imprint: Te Herenga Waka University Press
Publication date: 09/11/2023