Theres a Medical Name for This

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The pilgrim poems in this collection persuade the other poems and the readers to join them on a quest for personal meaning. All the while there is the feeling that the movement forward is really towards the place where it all began. There's a Medical Name for This is the second collection by Kerrin P. Sharpe, who completed the Victoria University Original Composition programme taught by Bill Manhire in 1976 and published her first book, Three Days in A Wishing Well, to acclaim in 2012.

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Sharpe gives us her memories, beliefs, philosophyand amid the music we hardly knew she was doing so. Poetry at its finest." London Grip

Author Bio

Kerrin P. Sharpe was born in Wellington and now lives in Christchurch where she is a poet and a teacher of creative writing. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Hue & Cry, JAAM, NZ Listener, Oxford Poets, Poetry NZ, Sport, Takahe, Turbine and The Press, and in Best NZ Poems and in The Best of the Best New Zealand Poems. In 2008 she was awarded the New Zealand Post Creative Writing Teacher's Award from the Institute of Modern Letters and in 2013 a Creative New Zealand project grant. She teaches creative writing at the Hagley Writers' Institute.