James Brown

James Brown’s four collections of poetry are published by Victoria University Press, Wellington, New Zealand. If you have a copy of Go Round Power Please or The Year of the Bicycle that you don’t want, he will buy it off you. James has been a finalist in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards three times. He is the author behind the informative booklet Instructions for Poetry Readings, and in 2005 he edited The Nature of Things: Poems from the New Zealand Landscape. In 2010, Pocket Money / Against Gravity, a selection of new poems, was published as part of the Duets series, which pairs New Zealand and United States poets. 

Brown comments: ‘The poem began as an exercise in which I decided that every sentence had to include the phrase “the green plastic toy”. The first two thirds came fairly quickly, but it took over a year for the last third to turn up.’

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