Two exciting young writers tell about their new books ...

A Network of Dissolving Threads
Richard von Sturmer $19.95
A Network of Dissolving Threads is about sparrows, and telephone-boxes, and wind, and hedges, and death, and pine cones, and condensation, and cicadas, and love, and power-lines, and discarded pens, and railway tracks, and bones, and mistakes, and remembering, and rain, and late afternoons, and fantails, and foam, and shadows, and dust. . . and about a clarity of perception that casts light upon these elements as they appear and disappear.

This collection of short fictions shows a writer of brilliance, precision and originality.

Swimmers, Dancers
Michele Leggott $16.95
it's noon—it's marvellous—it's going better than some—it's salty—it's been a pretty ordinary day—not that it's ever been—it's no Ophelia float—it's an evening—it's a wedding—it's eleven ten—it's a story—it's going to be—it's almost sunrise—

The sounds and glimpses of family and the messy, marvellous business of daily living give pattern and vitality to Michele Leggott's second book of poems.

AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY PRESS