Calypso

"Written under the twin auspices of Bob Dylan ('While calypso singers laugh at them and fishermen hold flowers') and Lord Byron ('But not in silence pass Calypso's isles'), Calypso is a new collection from Auckland poet Bob Orr. Orr's poems have the narrative drive and cadences of a born storyteller; they combine the everyday with a visionary sense of mystery and wonder." "Bob Orr has published three previous collections of poetry with Auckland University Press, most recently Valparaiso [2002]. Born in Hamilton in 1949 and raised in the rural Waikato, Orr now works as a boatman on the Waitemata Harbour."--BOOK JACKET.