Emer Lyons
Bird Collector by Alison Glenny (Compound Press, 2021), 88pp, $25; The Sea Walks into a Wall by Anne Kennedy (Auckland University Press, 2021), 94pp, $24.99; Sea-light by Dinah Hawken (Victoria University Press, 2021), 59pp, $25
The sea is thought to resonate with writers from islands. These three books engage with the ebb and flow of nature, social and environmental.
Bird Collector by Alison Glenny opens with a blank page. She allows the white of the page to welcome, ‘like / opening a drawer at random and finding snow’ (11). This is followed by the words of Emma Neale and Erik Kennedy, which frame the collection: Neale reads the ‘Victorian composer’ while Kennedy hears ‘a formidable antiquarian scholar’. Bird Collector is adorned with illustrations by Carrie Tiffany. [Read more…]