Calamities!

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In her second, spine-cracking collection, Jane Arthur wants to get morbid. Moving with ease between the cerebral and the ethereal she measures her anxieties against a cosmic canvas taking in everything from meteorites and distant planets to pomanders and cats ears. Whether contemplating time, regret, or the end of the world, these poems dont flinch. But in writing against hope, Arthur also writes against hopelessness, and finds, at the heart of it all, a bear, sleeping soundly or perhaps dead. 'Calamities! is a compelling book of the unsettled and unsettling, set in a world where comfort is an endangered animal and the apocalypse lurks outside our front doors. Jane Arthurs perceptive and all-too-relatable poems are what we need in these uncertain times they make me an even bigger fan of her already astonishing body of work.' Chris Tse

Author Bio

Jane Arthur is the author of Craven, which won the Jessie Mackay Prize for Best First Book of Poetry in 2020. She received the Sarah Broom Poetry Prize in 2018 and has a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from the IIML at Victoria University of Wellington. Born in New Plymouth, she manages and co-owns a small independent bookshop in Wellington, where she now lives with her family.