Sing-song
£12.49
Sing-song , Anne Kennedy’s first book of poems, explores the strains of parenthood – its anxieties, fatigue and exasperation – the contemporary experience of women, and the redeeming power of love in the face of adversity. The poems’ setting is the domestic life of a family of four, told from the mother’s perspective. Moving house, the gruelling experience of a child’s eczema, the pressures of a bi-cultural household, and encounters with healers of many kinds are some of the subjects of these poems.
Anne Kennedy is the author of three novels, a novella, four books of poetry, and many anthologised short stories. Her first book of poetry Sing-song was named Poetry Book of the Year at the 2004 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. The Darling North won the 2013 New Zealand Post Book Award for Poetry and Moth Hour was a poetry finalist at the 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Anne has also won the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award and has held fellowships at the University of Auckland, the IIML, and at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She has taught creative writing for a number of years in Hawai‘i and Auckland. Most recently she edited Remember Me: Poems to Learn by Heart from Aotearoa New Zealand.
- ISBN-13
- 9781869402952
- Publisher
- Auckland University Press
- Imprint
- Auckland University Press
- Publication date
- 1 May 2003
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 136
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 mm
- Language
- English