No Other Place to Stand

An Anthology of Climate Change Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand

No Other Place to Stand
Erik Kennedy, Alice Te Punga Somerville, Rebecca Hawkes, Jordan Hamel, Essa Ranapiri, Rod Carr
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14 Jul 2022 NZ
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9781869409555
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What, then, for the work of poetry? It' s at the very periphery of popular speech, niche even among the arts, yet it' s also rooted in the most ancient traditions of oral storytelling, no matter where your ancestors originate from. And, as we were reminded by an audience member at the New Zealand Young Writers Festival in 2020, who are we to say poetry cannot change the world? A poem may not be a binding policy or strategic investment, but poems can still raise movements, and be moving in their own right. And there is no movement in our behaviours and politics without a shift in hearts and minds. Whether the poems you read here are cloaked in ironic apathy or bare their hearts in rousing calls to action, they all arise from a deep sense of care for this living world and the people in it. Our poets are eulogists and visionaries, warriors and worriers. Most of all, they' re ordinary people prepared to sit and stare at a blank page, trying to do something with the bloody big troubles looming over our past, present and future. (from the introduction by the editor)
Jordan Hamel is a Poneke-based poet and performer. He was the 2018 New Zealand Poetry Slam champion. He uses poetry and performance to create awareness and discourse about environmental and political issues. He is the co-editor of Stasis Journal and his debut poetry collection Everyone is everyone except you was published by Dead Bird Books in 2022. Rebecca Hawkes is a poet/painter from Canterbury, living in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Her chapbook ' Softcore coldsores' was published in AUP New Poets 5 in 2019. Her first full-length poetry collection, Meat Lovers, was recently unleashed by Auckland University Press. Rebecca edits Sweet Mammalian and is a founding member of popstar poets' posse Show Ponies. Erik Kennedy is the author of Another Beautiful Day Indoors (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2022) and There' s No Place Like the Internet in Springtime (Victoria University Press, 2018), which was shortlisted for best book of poems at the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. He lives in Otautahi Christchurch. Essa Ranapiri (Ngati Wehi Wehi / Ngati Takatapui / Clan Gunn) is a poet from Kirikiriroa. They are part of puku. riri, a local writing group. Their book ransack was published by Victoria University Press in 2019. Give the land back. It' s the only way to fix this mess. They will write until they' re dead. And after that, sing.
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ISBN-13: 9781869409555
Published: 14 Jul 2022
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: Auckland University Press
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 224mm
Width: 164mm
Pages: 220

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