Walking to Jutland Street is the impressive first book-length collection by up-and-coming Auckland-based poet Michael Steven. The title refers to Dunedin’s industrial wharf precinct where some of the poet’s friends shared a flat in 2010. A poem about friendship in the face of the other, "Walking to Jutland Street" vividly recreates their evening "constitutional" from the flat via the bridge over train tracks to the city and back, with its inebriated, surreal, sometimes nightmarish inhabitants. Other poems deliver snapshots of the human condition through bizarre personalities such as the subject of "Dropped Pin: Jollie Street," "a man who proclaimed to function / best in a state close to coma. " Still others are tender love poems, travel poems, poems about family or childhood memory. This 2018 Otago University Press Paperback is in good condition. ISBN: 9781988531182 SKU: 1577102 This image is of the actual book.
