It takes the average reader 5 hours and 40 minutes to read Selected Poems by Ian Wedde
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Ian Wedde has been a major presence in New Zealand poetry since his work began appearing in journals in the late 1960s. His first book of poetry appeared in 1971; his sixth book won the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry in 1978; his sixteenth and most recent was a finalist in 2014. By the mid-1980s, as well as shaping his own verse, he had become an influential critic and shaper of larger trends in poetry as one of the co-editors of The Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse (1985) and The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry – Nga Kupu Titohu o Aotearoa (1989). After a quiet spell in...
Selected Poems by Ian Wedde is 340 pages long, and a total of 85,000 words.
This makes it 115% the length of the average book. It also has 104% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 44 minutes to read Selected Poems aloud.
Selected Poems is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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