The Leaf Ride
By (Author) Dinah Hawken
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Victoria University Press
15th April 2011
New Zealand
General
Non Fiction
821.2
Short-listed for New Zealand Post Book Awards: Poetry 2012
Paperback
88
Presenting poems with a remarkable range of themes, this collection runs the gamut from the power of a single word and the horror of violence to the joy of a newborn child. At the heart of the book are three pieces that stand alongside those that have formed the backbone of the authors acclaimed oeuvre: a contemplative poem written beside Lake Geneva; the Building Sonnets, which observe the construction of a new room; and Peace on Earth, which was commissioned to accompany a performance of Haydn's Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross.
Dinah Hawken is the author of It Has No Sound and Is Blue; Oh There You Are Tui; One Shapely Thing; Small Stories of Devotion; and Water, Leaves, Stones.