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Bird
Susan Hawthorne
'Birds don't fly with leads,' I said.
'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.'
So says thirteen-year-old Avis when confronted by 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...
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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...
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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...
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Butterfly Effect, The
Susan Hawthorne
No, here there's not a
straight line to be seen anywhere - chaos
in the shape of two vulval wings -
the butterfly effect.
The butterfly effect is a concept from physics in which it is surmised that small actions can have enormous consequences, and that the flutter of a butterfly's wing on one side of the world can cause devastating storms on the other side. Susan Hawthorne explores the impact of...
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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...
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