Description
A debut poetry collection of Courtney Sina Meredith. Writer Robert Sullivan describes Meredith’s work in his introduction to the collection: “…she brings together an edgy singer’s strength, wry insights, sensual material, beautiful shards, blood and breath, monsoons, and glistening water.” These words resonate in so many ways – linguistic and emotional – with the raw view of living and growing up in Aotearoa in the last three decades. There will be one of these poems that will stick in your head and make you rethink what you lived.
Distant Early Warning
Every sounding night
Taniwha bereaved
romances now peninsulas
cry in the bedroom corner
Hinging island mounds
part sky part feral trust
it grew damn heads
my cotton ridden isthmus
aue his head a fish hook
and all of life catching
I am almost surrounded by water
pushing out into bodies
wilful flesh bound seas
in my bed in the centre
of where the taniwha
in bloom in periodical shifts
as dew on settled matter
courts remorse