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Over the Road

Over the Road


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After his death in August 2023 a manuscript dated 2015 was discovered tucked among the books on the author’s shelves. Titled ‘Over The Road’, with the ‘Over’ inscribed above a crossed-out ‘On’, it had been written or copied into in a mini-notebook, one of a series which featured the classic 1950s Penguin Books orange, white, and black paperback covers--in this case the cover of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. In her introduction, Olds's friend and fellow poet writes: "If Jack Kerouac’s On the Road defined a generation, Over the Road defines Peter Olds as an individual. Olds transforms himself into Jack the narrator, restless and provocative, observant and poetic, hitching from the deep south, heading everywhere and nowhere, searching for the great unknown. In this condensed memoirish-travel guide, he heads north, stopping at Mexico City and Jerusalem on the way. Not stopping at Gore. From the V-8 engine of Olds’s literary imagination key people and places collide in a condensation of time. A fusion of fact and disguise. Olds’s lengthy struggle to arrive at a consistent sense of self is presented here by the close relationship between the two Jacks. ‘I’ Jack the narrator is connected through tangled relationships to his cousin ‘Jack’ Jack. Both Jacks walk alone.  Across the Road is an opportunity to experience Olds on a roll of ideas, albeit more curated in print. In later decades of his life, these conversations were surreal, often funny, and deliciously scathing. Sometimes gentle. Definitely inspiring."

About the Author :
Peter Olds (New Zealand, 1944) left school at sixteen and after meeting James K. Baxter in Dunedin in the 1960s began writing poetry. He was a Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago in 1978. In 2005 he was the inaugural recipient of the Janet Frame Literary Trust Award for Poetry. He is the author of numerous poetry collections, chapbooks, and broadsheets. An extensive selected poems, You fit the description, was published in 2014., His final collection, Sheep Truck, was published in 2022. A posthumous selection, The Glass Guitar, appeared in 2023. Out of the Jaws of Wesley, a miscellany of his poems, prose, letters, art work & book cover designs, was published by Cold Hub Press in 2022. Peter Olds died in Dunedin at the age of 79 on 31 August 2023.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780473759803
  • Publisher: Cold Hub Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cold Hub Press
  • Height: 210 mm
  • Width: 148 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0473759802
  • Publisher Date: 30 Oct 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 32


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