Birds of Clay

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This striking first collection (in English) mixes powerful lyrics, Serbian proverbs and literary experiments, and moves from the Balkan wars to New Zealand.

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Birds of Clay flies from the northern to the southern hemisphere, bringing with it a suitcase full of edgy Balkan politics and surrealism. Aleksandra Lane is no fly-by-night writer in exile, though: while vividly remembering where theyve come from, her words are busy putting down roots and tasting the soil on this side of the planet. They occupy the bittersweet zone between crossfire and desire, and have their sights trained on the moments when passion and compassion fall short of their target. Poignant and fierce, these are poems that surprise at every turn. Chris Price, poet, Husk

Author Bio

Birds of Clay is Aleksandra Lane's first book in English, after two published in Serbian. Aleks moved to New Zealand in 1996, and completed her MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University's Institute of Modern Letters in 2010, receiving the Biggs Poetry Prize. Her poems have been published in Jacket2, Sport, Turbine, Takahe, Snorkel, Side Stream and Swamp. She lives in Wellington and is studying for a PhD in English at Massey University.