Poems by Kirsten Warner
Published August 2018
20 pages, edition of 100
ISBN 9780994112347
She’s off the leash: dismantled, backwards, off-shore. Egyptian Goddess stalking the town! These impacted poems are both dynamically sonic and acutely narrative, sparkling with the bright surrealism of the everyday. May your heart leave your body like channel surfing, up a salt river you have to go days to find. May you look up from the good dark soil running through your fingers like melting ice caps and say: “Outside the sky there is sun.”
An author, journalist and musician who writes poetry and plays in a travelling folk blues band. Her debut novel The Sound of Breaking Glass was published in 2018 by Makāro Press and won the Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction at the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. In 2008 won one of New Zealand’s top essay prizes, the Landfall Essay Competition. The daughter of a Holocaust survivor, Kirsten was born in Hastings in 1956.
Review by Paula Green on the NZ Poetry Shelf
Review by Gayle Brownlee for the New Zealand Poetry Society
