As The Trees Have Grown
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
As The Trees Have Grown
By (Author) Stephanie De Montalk
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Te Herenga Waka University Press
8th June 2023
New Zealand
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)
821.92
Physical Properties
Paperback
104
Width 138mm, Height 210mm
Description
The poems in Stephanie de Montalks new collection engage with the world as if through a window cloaked, distanced, guided by the movements of the seasons, the weather, and always, trees. As de Montalk seeks a cure to the life-changing limitations of her physical self, she finds something close to solace in dreaming. These poems are always evocative, mysterious, reaching towards the possibility and hope of healing.
Author Bio
Stephanie de Montalk is the award-winning author of four collections of poems, including Animals Indoors, which won the 2001 Best First Book Award, the novel The Fountain of Tears, the biography Unquiet World: The Life of Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk, and How Does It Hurt, a memoir and study of chronic pain. Described by Damien Wilkins as groundbreaking and riveting and beautiful, How Does It Hurt was published to critical and medical acclaim, and received a Nigel Cox Award at the 2015 Auckland Writers Festival. It was published as Communicating Pain: Exploring Suffering through Language, Literature and Creative Writing by Routledge in 2018. Stephanie was the 2005 Victoria University Writer in Residence, and she lives in Wellington.
