Giveaway books Halcyon Ghosts & waha | mouth… there are more to come
Thanks to Auckland University Press I have randomly selected Harvey Molloy to get the copy of Sam Sampson’s Halcyon Ghosts and thanks to Victoria University Press I have randomly selected Nicola...
View ArticlePoetry Shelf Interviews Anna Jackson: ‘writing a poem out of nothing, it can...
Anna Jackson teaches English Literature at Victoria University and has published five collections of poetry. Thicket was shortlisted for the New Zealand Post Book Awards, and Auckland University Press...
View ArticleThe Friday Poem: John Adams on retiring as a judge today
Docking out Diminished judgment, rumpled, short concentration: all I could find was my powers ebbing when I woke up this morning. Too much time in the dark room; the strain almost too taut to spin a...
View ArticleAnna Jackson’s I, Clodia and Other Portraits – A lightness that is fierce, a...
I, Clodia and Other Portraits Anna Jackson, Auckland University Press, 2015 Anna Jackson has published five collections of poetry including Thicket (Auckland University Press, 2011) which was a...
View ArticlePoetry Shelf Review: Gregory Kan’s This Paper Boat floats on an ethereal...
Gregory Kan This Paper Boat Auckland University Press 2016 Gregory Kan’s debut poetry collection, This Paper Boat, is a joy to read on so many levels. Kan’s poetry has featured in a number of...
View ArticleLaunch of new poetry books by Chris Price and Lynley Edmeades
I am currently reading Chris Price’s new collection … it is fabulous! Want to savour slowly. Have loved everything I have seen by Lynley so far — so eagerly await the book.
View ArticlePoetry Shelf interviews Chris Price –‘a little dash of crazy, a pinch of...
Photo credit: Robert Cross How the song will wait no matter how long, how high the moon or tower, however dry the seed or flower — the song will raise you. from ‘Spell for a child to remember’...
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