Tigers at Awhitu
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- ISBN 9781903039991
- Weight: 113g
- Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2010
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Sarah Broom’s poetry profoundly engages the landscape of her native NewZealand. Experienced as both nurturing and menacing, tender andindifferent, it is the context within which other terrains areexplored: heightened states of awareness, the physical extremes ofillness, the drifts and tides of close relationships, the complexitiesof motherhood. Intensely conscious of death, her poetry is fiercelyattached to life and love.
It’s hard to believe that such amature and fully-fledged collection is also the author’s first. A bookfor our times; specifically a woman’s, and more specifically, amother’s book, it is ‘about time that wears / as ragged as storm-blownwings’. Poems of deep poignancy and unflinching tenderness arepresented against a backdrop of encroaching tidescape in which a fiercebeauty burns all the more brightly, the more it is threatened. - Medbh McGuckian
Cover painting: John Walsh, Tangata Whenua (detail). Reproduced by kind permissionof the artist. Cover design StephenRaw.com
Interview: Sarah Broom talks to Ryan van Winkle for the Scottish Poetry Library. She reads from and discusses Tigers at Awhitu, including how it was put together and how her diagnosis with lung cancer affected the tone of the last part of the collection. Presented by Ryan Van Winkle. Produced by Colin Fraser.
Email: splpodcast@gmail.com
Twitter @anonpoetry and @byleaveswelive.
Click here to hear Sarah Broom interviewed on New Zealand radio.
Click here to hear New Zealand poet Sam Hunt enthusing about Sarah Broom's work.
It’s hard to believe that such amature and fully-fledged collection is also the author’s first. A bookfor our times; specifically a woman’s, and more specifically, amother’s book, it is ‘about time that wears / as ragged as storm-blownwings’. Poems of deep poignancy and unflinching tenderness arepresented against a backdrop of encroaching tidescape in which a fiercebeauty burns all the more brightly, the more it is threatened. - Medbh McGuckian
Cover painting: John Walsh, Tangata Whenua (detail). Reproduced by kind permissionof the artist. Cover design StephenRaw.com
Interview: Sarah Broom talks to Ryan van Winkle for the Scottish Poetry Library. She reads from and discusses Tigers at Awhitu, including how it was put together and how her diagnosis with lung cancer affected the tone of the last part of the collection. Presented by Ryan Van Winkle. Produced by Colin Fraser.
Email: splpodcast@gmail.com
Twitter @anonpoetry and @byleaveswelive.
Click here to hear Sarah Broom interviewed on New Zealand radio.
Click here to hear New Zealand poet Sam Hunt enthusing about Sarah Broom's work.
After spending seven years in the UK, studying and working in Leeds and Oxford, Sarah Broom returned to New Zealand in 2000. She is the author of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). Tigers at Awhitu is her first collection of poems. She died in 2013. For a full obituary, click here.
