From Nowhere (Erewhon) to NEW ZEALAND

Authors

Jason Lofts

Abstract

in 1996, having been in self-imposed exile from New Zealand for 11 years, I penned an anagrammatical poem NEW ZEALAND and published it as a postcard (8 lines of silver lettering on glossy black card). Apart from a mention at the time in the New Zealand News UK, a British weekly for Kiwi expatriates, it went unnoticed until 2002, when -despite its imperfections- it provided a quirky supporting act to the serious literary stars Samuel Butler and Janet Frame in "From Erewhon to Nowhere: A Leitmotif of New Zealand Poetry?", a scholarly contribution by Peter H. Marsden on pages 365-376 of a weighty academic tome entitled "Missions of Interdependence, A Literary Directory."

Recommended Citation

Lofts, Jason (2013) "From Nowhere (Erewhon) to NEW ZEALAND," Word Ways: Vol. 46 : Iss. 3 , Article 16.
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol46/iss3/16