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Category : poetry - 17 result(s)
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Bird
Susan Hawthorne
Birds don't fly with leads...Safety belts are to learn with, not to live with⎯I’m safer on the trapeze than crossing the road. And I do that every day, often by myself.
Thirteen-year-old Avis confronts the limitations imposed on her at school. She has epilepsy and some of the teachers want to stop her participating in the sport she loves most. Susan Hawthorne captures the voice and longings... Read More »
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Blood Relations
Sandy Jeffs
Sometimes memory warps cobbling together a host of images leaving the self embellished by the past.
The poems in this collection are an evocative documentation of the harrowing experiences of a child living in a hostile and unhappy home. The reader is shown the pain, the bitterness and the mixed emotions that accompany the experiences of growing up in a family torn apart by domestic violence... Read More »
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Body In Time / Nervous Arcs
Diane Fahey & Jordie Albiston
Two poets known for delving into history and myth turn their attention to inner spaces, to time and the body's arcs. Jordie Albiston voices the unspoken languages of the body unearthing the complexity of memory, of desire and the art of the corporeal. Diane Fahey revisits the travelling body as it inhales memories of architecture and landscape. Scouring the body and the land for mines of... Read More »
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Charts And Soundings
Sue Fitchett & Jane Zusters Charts and Soundings is a book of myths and a loaded camera.
Bones are the bottom line
at the end
we can be sure
there'll be a skeleton
connections
which shine
whitely in murk
map a way to the
heart of matter
A luminous collection of photographs and poetry earthed in the New Zealand landscape by two of its finest artists: award-winning poet Sue Fitchett and photographer Jane... Read More »
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Earth's Breath
Susan Hawthorne
Breath is an origin story before breath is non-existence
Cyclonic storms inform the still eye of Earth's Breath. It's an eye that radiates out from the personal to the communal, tracking its subject matter through the lenses of history and myth. Susan Hawthorne's poetry shifts with seismic intensity, from tranquility to roar, bureaucratic inertia to survival, and the slow recovery from... Read More »
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