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Night Train to Anyang

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Price:
$15.00
Composer:
Peacocke, Gemma
Instrumentation:
voice and piano
Year composed:
2021
Duration:
c. 3:00
Format:
A4, pp7, digital download (PDF)
Description:
I love the blurry, dreamlike imagery Nina Mingya Powles uses to describe glimpses of a landscape from a train moving through the dark towards Anyang. The way she describes memory and longing for Aotearoa as she travels through an unfamiliar night-time landscape is at once impressionistic and deeply modern. Juxtaposed in the poem are neon lights and monolithic mountains—the ancient and contemporary and foreign and familiar—in China and New Zealand. This duality is embodied in Anyang itself, a modern industrial city in Henan province and an ancient capital of Chinese culture.
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