Sing-song: paperback

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Anne Kennedy's first book of poems explores the strains of parenthood - its anxieties, fatigue and exasperation - the contemporary experience of women, and the redeeming power of love in the face of adversity. The poems' setting is the domestic life of a family of four, told from the mother's perspective. Moving house, the gruelling experience of a child's eczema, the pressures of a bi-cultural household, and encounters with healers of many kinds are some of the subjects of these poems.

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"Eczema-daughter, eczema-mother, who could have imagined a more unlikely subject for a collection But what a moving, engaging, almost heart-stopping progress it is. A first reading is likely to be fast to find out the outcome. A second reading shows that life was going on all the time." --Elizabeth Smither, New Zealand Poet Laureate

Author Bio

Anne Kennedy is the author of Musica Ficta, A Boy and His Uncle, and the short story "Jewel's Darl."