商品簡介
RABBIT RABBIT Kerrin P. Sharpe he gave him the lungs to open the hands of fields and walk through an alphabet of rabbits ??the train kept my son breathing’ In her third collection, Kerrin P. Sharpe writes about trespass and return, the homelessness of flight, and anatomies both human and object. Her poems take the form of oblique, sometimes tragic, always powerful vignettes. These are poems that are brilliantly restless in time and place.
作者簡介
Kerrin P. Sharpe was born in Wellington but now lives in Christchurch where she is a poet and a teacher of creative writing. She completed the Victoria University Original Composition programme taught by Bill Manhire in 1976 and has recently returned to writing as her family have grown up and left home. Kerrin’s poems have appeared in many journals, including Hue & Cry, Blackbox Manifold, Snorkel, Contrapasso, Cordite, Landfall, The London Grip, 150 Essential New Zealand Poems (anthology), Leaving the Red Zone (anthology), JAAM, NZ Listener, Poetry NZ, Sport, Takahe, Turbine and the Press, in Best NZ Poems 08, 09, 10, 12 and 14 and in The Best of the Best New Zealand Poems. A group of her poems also appeared in 2013 in the UK publication Oxford Poets 13 (Carcanet). She is currently Writer-in-Residence at St Andrews College and teaches creative writing at a number of schools and educational institutes. In 2008 she was awarded the New Zealand Post Creative Writing Teacher’s Award from the Institute of Modern Letters. Kerrin’s latest collection Rabbit Rabbit was written with the assistance of a generous grant from Creative NZ.
