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Publications

broken lines / in charcoal, edited by Joanna Preston and Karen Zelas, is an anthology of poems by 37 poets, new, emerging and well-established. These poems had their origins in the Poetry Classes of Joanna Preston.  

Publication date: 24 September 2020
ISBN: 978-0-473-52742-6
Pages: 148
Price: $30.00

I love broken lines / in charcoal. Editors Joanna Preston and Karen Zelas have brought together an anthology brimming with sumptuous poems by names well known and new. Reading work by Gail Ingram, Jeni Curtis, Jane Simpson, Marisa Cappetta, Lynn Tara Austin, Ian McCartney and so many more, I found myself, in turns, moved and awestruck. This collection is a fitting testament to the power of workshops to enrich authors’ lives and poetry.        – Siobhan Harvey

This is a rich and satisfying collection, adroitly curated by Joanna Preston and Karen Zelas. The result? Wonderful poems: careful poems, daring poems, cheeky poems, quirky poems; poems of delight, poems of grief; formal voices, free-spirited voices; each voice individual and memorable.
Many writers have become prominent nationally, while others are relatively new; all are worth reading. broken lines / in charcoal is a celebration of the imagination and a fine tribute to the art of poetry.                                                                                                                   – James Norcliffe 

What the poems in this remarkable anthology have in common is a love of the exuberance and mutability of language. What sets them apart is the diversity of voices. From the experimental tone of the beginner to the assured cadence of the seasoned writer, there is much to delight and savour.                                                                                                                       – Morrin Rout 

broken lines / in charcoal is a book of treasures that speaks to our collective poetic inheritance.                                                                                                                                           – Johanna Emeney

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​Contents Under Pressure by Gail Ingram blends poetry, narrative and collage, and is complemented by collage-style illustrations by Rata Ingram. It tells the story of a mother-turned-graffiti-artist and her teenage sons, who experience mental health and drug issues as they grow up through the after-effects of the Christchurch earthquakes. 
Contents Under Pressure reads as a novella in verse.

  Published:2019
   ISBN: 978-0-473-47034-0
  Pages: 85 
  Illustrations: 7; b&w
  Price: $25.00 

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     Gail Ingram has pulled off something special here.​                               - Sue Wootton 

     Years after the Christchurch earthquakes, the breakages continue. A young physics
     student is falling apart. His mother takes to the streets at night, tagging her rage
     and anguish onto the city's walls. Their story is raw, painful, brave and at times    
     strangely hilarious. Language is shattered in these pages, street art conjures up 
     the nightmares. There's energy to burn here.                                    - Bernadette Hall 


To hear Gail Ingram discussing her book with Morrin Rout on Bookenz at Plains FM, click HERE
    

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​Aspiring Light is Robynanne Milford's third book of poetry. It comprises poems of celebration and lyrical beauty that  trace the early history of Wanaka and celebrate the wilderness of Central Otago.
Milford was inspired in part by the works and pursuits of artists, musicians and writers drawn to this region in the 1940s.

   ISBN: 978-0-473-31412-5
   Published: 2015
   Price: $25.00                       SOLD OUT
   
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​feathers unfettered: 25 New Zealand Birds is a collaboration between Karen Zelas and Hawkes Bay poet and artist Jan Fitzgerald.
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Both the poems and illustrations are quirky, but ornithologically accurate.

   ISBN: 978-0-473-28797-9
   Published: 2014
   b & w 
   Pages: 63
   RRP: $20.00   
 
   NOW $15.00       2 copies for $25.00
   

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