{"title":"Bernard Cadogan","description":"\u003cp\u003eBernard Cadogan’s works traverse the realms of \u003cstrong\u003epolitics and culture\u003c\/strong\u003e, offering readers a thoughtful exploration of historical and contemporary themes. His titles, ranging from reflections on war to personal and societal introspection, invite a nuanced engagement with the forces that shape our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a style that blends analytical depth and artistic sensitivity, Cadogan’s writing challenges assumptions and illuminates the complexities of human experience. Expect prose that is both intellectually stimulating and richly evocative.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"crete-1941-by-bernard-cadogan-9780473587895","title":"Crete 1941","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAustralia has 'The Great South Land', South Africa has 'Shaka Zulu', Argentina has the gaucho epic 'Martin Fierro', and Chile has 'La Araucana' as its national poem. Now New Zealand has \u003cem\u003eCrete 1941\u003c\/em\u003e, an epic poem about the New Zealand-led defence of Crete during the Battle of Crete between 20 May and 1 June 1941.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCrete 1941\u003c\/em\u003e is the only epic long poem in English since Derek Walcott's 'Omeros', with the entry of the 28th (Māori) Battalion as an active combat force providing the culmination of the poem. As geopolitical tensions rise in the Pacific today, it's timely to look back to when New Zealand last went to war and defended another small nation - Greece - on its last redoubt, in a battle that ended in a Dunkirk-style evacuation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMore than just a war story, \u003cem\u003eCrete 1941\u003c\/em\u003e brings women back into the historic struggle for Crete. The poem is a life-changing reflection on the virtue of good small nations, on the contribution of indigenous peoples such as Māori and Cretans to international developments, and on the fragility that both peace and its disruptors share.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'In no way glorifying the violence of the Greek campaign and the battle of Crete,' said poet Bernard Cadogan, 'this epic places conflict right at the heart of our desire for peace, as well as our capacity to reason, will and love. Unlike other \"war stories\", women are central to this poem, never absent.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCadogan asks: 'Why did New Zealanders fight for the oldest site of a European palace state: the site of the myth of the labyrinth and Minotaur? What was the monster in the palace that we fought? What other ways are there of dealing with such a menace?'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'This is a radical poem, not a fuddy-duddy poem,' said Cadogan. 'It is not composed in Spenserian stanzas as a conservative nostalgia trip or whimsy, but as a deliberate act of decolonisation and reparation for Edmund Spenser and our own premier Alfred Domett's dreadfully racist \"Ranolf and Amohia\".'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'\u003cem\u003eCrete 1941\u003c\/em\u003e does this in the spirit of Wu Ming's New Italian Epic, inverting Ferrara, Cork, colonial Wellington.... Someone has said \u003cem\u003eCrete 1941\u003c\/em\u003e has put intellect and heart back into New Zealand verse; in a way this is true.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Tuwhiri","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47379864191212,"sku":"9780473587895","price":52.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/16557713482356.jpg?v=1773263673"},{"product_id":"the-loss-of-madness-by-bernard-cadogan-9780473618919","title":"The Loss of Madness","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBringing together 31 of his poems as a meditation on the work of the German poet, Friedrich Hölderlin, New Zealand poet Bernard Cadogan recommends that you read one poem each day for a month, allowing yourself the time to engage with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach poem is a response either to reading a poem by Hölderlin, or to his situation. He uses an adapted villanelle form, so as to be as much unlike as Hölderlin as possible, allowing Bernard’s own voice some space, and time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Germany, Hölderlin is a vital part of the secondary and tertiary curriculum, acting as a unifier over and above ideology. Yet Hölderlin has no counterpart in English literature. What makes Hölderlin different from British Romantics is not just the greater power and dynamism of his verse, but a successful intellectual condensation that eluded his British counterparts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLiving a traditional poet’s life as a semi-exile in English, Bernard Cadogan is one of those rare thinkers who dares imagine Aotearoa New Zealand politics in the wide horizon of international cultural discourses. At the same time, he has a deep commitment to indigenous ideas of education, creativity and communitarian participation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAotearoa New Zealand\u003c\/em\u003e will become a republic. If we want to make this an inauguration and release of our energies, and not just an accidental follow-up to the installation of a new monarch, New Zealanders would do well to consider the abundant and dynamic verse of the great German republican, Friedrich Hölderlin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Tuwhiri","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47379864617196,"sku":"9780473618919","price":21.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/e49fa6587b5bf95f9bc4772d38b01d48_c6a38593-291e-468b-a1aa-15db18a854c3.jpg?v=1773277980"},{"product_id":"sixty-something-by-bernard-cadogan-9780473688271","title":"Sixty Something","description":"","brand":"Tuwhiri","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47379877298412,"sku":"9780473688271","price":22.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/e49fa6587b5bf95f9bc4772d38b01d48_94d6a1a8-3f81-434e-bb9a-b1b53c5a7af3.jpg?v=1773277976"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/bernard-cadogan.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}