Ghosts
Far from dead, our ghosts live within us always …
Poet Siobhan Harvey’s latest collection is about migration, outcasts, the search for home, and the ghosts we live with, including the ones who occupy our memories, ancestries and stories.
It begins in a contemporary inner-city suburb where a poet starts to chart the regeneration she witnesses, its difficulties and opportunities. Along the way, the collection moves across time-zones, oceans and continents, breaking down personal and political walls, and unleashing ghosts everywhere.
Ultimately, Ghosts is a work concerned with dislocation, rejection, homelessness, family trauma and how we can give voice to the lost souls inside us all.
From reviews of Cloudboy:
Harvey is a prodigiously talented poet … – Patricia Prime, takahē
Few if any New Zealand poetry collections have been so focused, nor so secure in that
focus. Cloudboy is a book that takes great risks but confronts those risks with courage and
unflinching honesty. – James Norcliffe, Landfallonfronts those risks with courage and
unflinching honesty. – James Norcliffe, Landfall
Siobhan Harvey
Siobhan Harvey is the author of nine books, including Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award–winning Cloudboy (OUP, 2014), the Ockham New Zealand Book Award–longlisted Ghosts (OUP, 2021), and, as co-editor, the bestselling Essential New Zealand Poems (Godwit, 2014). She won the 2023 Landfall Tauraka Essay Competition and has received the Janet Frame Literary Trust Award for Poetry, the NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship, the Kathleen Grattan Award, the Robert Burns Poetry Prize and the Write Well Award (US). Harvey is a senior lecturer in creative writing at AUT.
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Cloudboy