The New Zealand Post Book Awards – poetry finalists - Books

The New Zealand Post Book Awards – poetry finalists

In the lead-up to National Poetry Day, the three poetry finalists in the New Zealand Post Book Awards talk to Sally Blundell.

By Sally Blundell In Books

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28th July, 2012

DINAH HAWKEN ‘I love that painting,” says Paekakariki poet Dinah Hawken of Michael Hight’s Mere Mere, the cover image of her collection The leaf-ride. “I think it’s the fragility of the trees on a raft that does look like a leaf.” The title phrase appears in My tiny songs are these, a metaphor for a life journey: the still pools and turbulences awaiting Elsa, grandchild No 1 – “a research institute”, “an expeditionary force” – at the beginning of “her own leaf-ride/of suffering and joy”.Across the 28 poems in this collection, ...

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