Axis
Cilla McQueen is one of New Zealand’s major poets, a three-time winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry. Axis is a selection of her poems from the past twenty years, drawn from five volumes of her published work: Homing In (1982), Anti Gravity (1984), Wild Sweets (1986), Benzina (1988) and Crik’ey (1993). The poems are interspersed with drawings she produced on related themes and subjects. Also included are McQueen’s musical scores, for works such as ‘singing landscapes’ and ‘conversations in crowded rooms’.
This is an exciting book, and one that will be welcomed by anyone who enjoys the work of Cilla McQueen.
‘All [McQueen’s] best and most loved poems in the one book.’ – Raewyn Bright, PPTA News
‘Grounding and bracing at the same time.’ – Emma Neale, Evening Post
Cilla McQueen
Cilla McQueen MNZM is a poet, teacher and artist, and a three-time winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry. She received an honorary doctorate in literature from the University of Otago in 2008 and was New Zealand Poet Laureate from 2009 to 2011. In 2010 she received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement (Poetry). In 2020 she was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services as a poet. Cilla lives in Bluff, at the southern tip of New Zealand’s South Island.
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