by Sarah Scott | Aug 20, 2026 | A Fine Line, Reviews
LYNN JENNER The Gum Trees of Kerikeri (Otago University Press, 2026). ISBN 9781991348180. RRP: $30. 64 pp. I was shocked by news footage from Ukraine and Gaza a few years ago. Recurring scenes of rubble and destruction reminded me of Peter McIntrye’s...
by Sarah Scott | May 19, 2026 | A Fine Line, Reviews
Ed. A. Jansen, J. Begg, L. Carey, R. de Jong, W. Hollis, J. Lamb, R. Tahana-Dawson Potluck: poems about food (Landing Press, 2025). ISBN 9780473759292. RRP $25.00. 222pp. The newest offering from Landing Press is a collection of poems about food. Poems about...
by Sarah Scott | Mar 3, 2026 | A Fine Line, Reviews
JAC JENKINS Moon too Heavy (Pavlova Press, 2025). ISBN 9780473744199. RRP $25. 50pp. inside | walls crawl with mould | curtains sulk in corners | a woman crouches in front of lazy flames | wan | not so much warm as ...
by Sarah Scott | Nov 21, 2025 | A Fine Line, Reviews
NINA MINGYA POWLES In the Hollow of the Wave (Auckland University Press, 2025). ISBN 9781776711512. RRP $24.99. 96pp. ‘People asked me where I learned / and I said I taught myself the slow work of making’ (“Slipstitch”). Nina Mingya Powles’s writing has always...
by Sarah Scott | Aug 20, 2025 | A Fine Line, Reviews
AMY MARGEURITE over under fed (Auckland University Press, 2025). ISBN 9781776711642. RRP $24.99. 80pp. I first read over under fed in unusualcircumstances. On Takapuna Beach, I reclinedshivering on a towel marked ‘HOSPITALPROPERTY’, deep in Marguerite’s...
by Sarah Scott | May 20, 2025 | A Fine Line, Reviews
NAFANUA PURCELL KERSEL Black Sugarcane (Wellington: Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2025). ISBN 9781776922222. RRP $30.00. 128pp. Nafanua Purcell Kersel’s debut poetry collection Black Sugarcane is a generous invitation intocommunity and family, storytelling...
