New poems by a rising star of New Zealand poetry
New poems by a rising star of New Zealand poetry
Couples in last-chance therapy, best friends unfriending, racist trolls trawling the comments section for game - this collection is concerned with the things that make us feel. This felt realm is very much in nature, too. From the regal calm of goats cudding in the sun to the slow unwinding of the last bee on earth, Johanna Emeney seems to say that there is a message in the air - for those who listen with all of the senses. This outstanding suite of loosely connected poems is by turns powerful, warm, loving, and shocking.
JOHANNA EMENEY (1974-), a Cambridge graduate with a postgraduate diplomain education, is a tutor of creative writing at Massey University, Auckland, whereshe gained her PhD. She has published two books of poetry, Apple and Tree(Cape Catley, 2011) and Family History (Ma karo Press, 2017), and an academicbook, The Rise of Autobiographical Medical Poetry and the Medical Humanities(Ibidem Press, 2018). She was the editor of the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook2020. She co-facilitates
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