TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wedde,Ian
TI  - Tendering
SN  - 1 86940 029 1
PY  - 1988///
PB  - Auckland University Press
KW  - Poetry
N2  - The word 'tender' is wonderfully supple. It describes vulnerability and also protective feelings—tenderness. Tender is what we do when we bid for the possession of something. We tend what we care for; we also incline, and we attend. A ship tended swings to the weather tide on an anchor; a ship is attended by a tender filled with provisions or fuel
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