Past Lives
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Past Lives
By (Author) Leah Dodd
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Te Herenga Waka University Press
9th March 2023
New Zealand
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
NZ821.3
Physical Properties
Paperback
96
Width 160mm, Height 210mm
Description
Grounded in the urgency of the moment - motherhood, housing precarity, politics - Past Lives also surges along on the nervous and joyful electricity of Leah Dodd's voice, taking us from buses to poetry readings, rental bathrooms to Runescape, sometimes through the power of astral projection. These poems encounter domestic and feral creatures, mermaids, and men with terrible mullets. In form these poems are restless and spacious, constantly locating themselves, as the author herself does in her new life with a young child who shapeshifts daily. Most of all, these poems are about becoming - how, as we move toward the future, we turn our thoughts backwards towards the lives we have come from.
Author Bio
Leah Dodd lives in Poneke. Her poetry has appeared in Starling, Stasis, Mayhem, Sweet Mammalian and The Spinoff. In 2021 she won the Biggs Family Poetry Prize from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington.
