Secret Heart
By (Author) Arini Beautrais
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Victoria University Press
10th June 2006
New Zealand
General
Non Fiction
NZ821.3
Winner of New Zealand Society of Authors Best First Book Awards: Jessie Mackay Award for Poetry 2007
Paperback
80
Sarcastic and ironic on the surface, this collection of autobiographical prose poems seems cynical and introspective at first, but its sharp-tongued sense of humor helps turn the poems outward, embracing society and creating a wry self-portrait of a young womans urban world.
Airini Beautrais has a MA in creative writing from Victoria University of Wellington.