Nice Pretty Things

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'My poems don't start from ideas, but from bits of language, maybe a turn of phrase that's like a tune that plays over and over in my mind. A poem can often be like a game in my head where I want to think about something I don't fully understand. Recently a child said to me, "I'm not me. I'm someone else. I'm very strong. I'm Richie McCaw." It's easy when you're four years old to play this sort of game. Writing is one way that as an adult I can take on a different persona.'

Author Bio

Rachel Bush is the author of two collections of poetry, The Hungry Woman (1997) and The Unfortunate Singer (2002). She has also appeared in Faber's Introduction 3 as well as in anthologies and journals such as Sport, Landfall and the Listener. She lives in Nelson.