Strong Words #2

Strong Words #2
Emma Neale
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Paperback
h215 x 165mm - 184pg
30 Jun 2021 NZ
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9781990048050
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Strong Words #2 showcases the long-listed entries for the 2019 and 2020 Landfall essay competitions. The contents, often poetic and psychologically insightful, gave editor Emma Neale a ' hell of an intriguingly hard time' deciding which sparkling explorations would knock off the others for the top three places in each year. This anthology gives readers a chance to sample the high-quality work entered, without the agony of having to choose the winners. Including well-known names and promising newcomers, the contents roam far and wide over a number of subjects, such as Sarah Harpur' s irreverent, laugh-aloud essay about death; Siobhan Harvey' s potent essay about the memories of an abusive childhood stirred up by current house renovations; and Tan Tuck Ming' s essay about technology and how it mediates, enables and impacts intimate relationships. Strong Words #2 also includes the joint winners of the 2019 essay prize: Tobias Buck' s ' Exit. Stage Left' , which explores issues of prejudice and bias through the experience of someone ' the colour of cotton candy or pink marshmallows' , and Nina Mingya Powles' work ' Tender Gardens' , exploring Chinese cultural and poetic heritage and how to maintain a sense of home in a foreign land.
"What is invariably terrific in Eggletons poetry is not only the relish of his attack, but the flash of lyric underwing colour as he dives on his prey". IAN WEDDE
EMMA NEALE has published six novels and five poetry collections, and edited several anthologies. She is a former Robert Burns fellow (2012) and has received numerous awards and grants for her writing including the Janet Frame/NZSA Memorial Prize for Literature (2008), the University of Otago/Sir James Wallace Pah Residency (2014), and she was Philip and Diane Beatson/NZSA Writing Fellow in 2015. Neale was awarded the Kathleen Grattan Award for 2011 for her poetry collection The Truth Garden, and was a finalist for the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2017 for her novel Billy Bird. Since 2018 she has been editor of Landfall journal, and she holds a PhD in New Zealand Literature from University College London (UK).
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ISBN-13: 9781990048050
Published: 30 Jun 2021
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: Otago University Press
Publisher: Otago University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 215mm
Width: 165mm
Pages: 184

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