The Merino Princess: Selected PoemsThis collection bring together the best of the author's five previous collections of poetry, creating a range that extends from the wickedly funny to the hauntingly beautiful. |
Contents
lacework | 11 |
mayday | 24 |
modo de volar | 36 |
english room 202 | 42 |
party tricks | 48 |
the stories | 54 |
poem in the matukituki valley | 60 |
song | 67 |
the leaving | 73 |
famine | 80 |
open field | 83 |
the lay sister | 96 |
acknowledgements | 111 |
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