Hazard Poets Series

Series Editors: Rob Jackaman (New Zealand) Philip Mead (Australia)
NEW RELEASES

Embracing The Dark Mike Minehan   'The man chainsawing a tree may be saving his wife's life; the woman throwing knives onto the garage roof, the lives of her children. Who knows'Small acts of valour are made every day under the guise of madness. On the borderline, those whom we would call crazy, teeter and consider...: they find ways out of the darkness. These poems are about mythology and salvation.' Mike Minehan

Return to Earth Graham Lindsay   Return to Earth is about exile and return. That's two journeys: one to a place before words, and one to tell the tale. Return to Earth is about coming through, falling on our feet in the present. The text is extensively illustrated by Bryan Harold.

Karitane Postcards Rob Allan   Karitane Postcards is a sustained post-modern attempt to write a long poem with an epic scope. Matured over a period of time these postcards take their strength from local detail but range more widely in significance, orchestrating a surge of voices, opinions and arguments.

In the First Place David Howard   This is a volume which gathers inspiration from a variety of sources—personal, intellectual, artistic—all united and transformed by a scrupulous craft and a flair for lyric intensity. Photographs by Paul Swadel are interspersed throughout the text and underline and support the significance of the visual image in David Howard's work.

Forthcoming in mid 1991 are Australian volumes by Jill Jones and Peter Hay and later in 1991 and early 1992, New Zealand volumes by Riemke Ensing, Alan Loney, Rhondda Greig, Rob Jackaman, Helen Jacobs and James Norcliffe.

$19.95 (gst incl) per volume from leading bookstores or direct from the publisher.

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Hazard Press

P.O. Box 8427, Christchurch. Phone/fax: (3) 348-1157