Sooky La-La

I don’t know
where all these tears come from
there is a deep well
a tidal pool

Elise Sadlier’s sparkling debut is for all the East Coast lovergirls who’ve been told they’re too sensitive, too intense, too loud – too sooky.

These poems reach for crackling electric fences, run towards heartbreak down Highway 35 and follow the flight of the kōtuku to the edge of the world.

Sooky La-La is about coming-of-age into spiral time, learning to sit in your feels and your multitudes – and finding your tīpuna right there with you.

E tangiweto,
run like hell.
Break,
don’t cry.