The debut collection from one of Aotearoa’s most exciting emerging poets. Take part in a new transformation with every new page as the speaker becomes by turns an egg, multiple trees, a town crier, a needle in a haystack, and a cone of blue light in this incisive and pathos-filled exploration of what it means to be anything at all.
In this inventive and poignant collection, Jackson Nieuwland explores and explodes the limits of how we write about identity and all its aching complexity and beauty. The question posed in I am a human being isn’t so much who, but what am I? Nieuwland offers many answers by upending the boxes we’re expected to fit into, scattering their contents like jigsaw pieces to be sorted and reconstructed into something new and extraordinary. These poems swing between the deadpan and the surreal, inviting us to reject the obvious and embrace the mess of who we are as individuals in a world that demands easy categorisation.
Chris Tse (author of He’s So Masc)
The debut collection from one of Aotearoa’s most exciting emerging poets. Take part in a new transformation with every new page as the speaker becomes by turns an egg, multiple trees, a town crier, a needle in a haystack, and a cone of blue light in this incisive and pathos-filled exploration of what it means to be anything at all.
In this inventive and poignant collection, Jackson Nieuwland explores and explodes the limits of how we write about identity and all its aching complexity and beauty. The question posed in I am a human being isn’t so much who, but what am I? Nieuwland offers many answers by upending the boxes we’re expected to fit into, scattering their contents like jigsaw pieces to be sorted and reconstructed into something new and extraordinary. These poems swing between the deadpan and the surreal, inviting us to reject the obvious and embrace the mess of who we are as individuals in a world that demands easy categorisation.
Chris Tse (author of He’s So Masc)
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ISBN - 9780995125148