{"product_id":"makeshift-seasons","title":"Makeshift Seasons","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe failings of the body\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ecan be a form of company\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ea trapped nerve ringing in the night\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003elike music.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eKate Camp’s poetry has been described by readers as fearless, affable and ‘containing a surprising radicalism and power’. In her new collection, she is ever alert to the stories unfolding all around us and inside our own bodies. As she is striding away from hope, she is also holding on tightly to the promise of morning. The poems move between distant planets and Chappies Dairy, between Mont-Saint-Michel and the lighthouse in Island Bay, with every moment, every feeling, every conviction on the edge of becoming another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike the plumber who can hear water running deep underground, \u003cem\u003eMakeshift Seasons\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of extraordinarily sharp sensing and knowing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Kate Camp\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘These magical, knotty works react to a fragile world, and Camp navigates the light along with the dark.’ —Paula Green \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Each poem’s like a bumper ride in a fairground, crashing into obstacles, at once jarring and exhilarating.’ —David Eggleton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Here is “the so-called outside world”, and here is its wonderfully sensitive, fluently understated poet.’ —Stephanie Burt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e‘A wild, imaginative energy flares throughout the collection. Kate Camp is a fearless writer.’ —New Zealand Book Awards\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003ePoet and essayist \u003cstrong\u003eKate Camp\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1972 and lives in Wellington. She is the winner of many prestigious awards, including the 2011 Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers’ Residency and the 2017 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship. She is the author of seven previous collections of poems, including \u003cem\u003eThe Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the 2011 NZ Post Book Award for Poetry) and \u003cem\u003eHow to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2020), and a collection of autobiographical essays, \u003cem\u003eYou Probably Think This Song Is About You\u003c\/em\u003e (2022).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44246014853317,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/9781776922291.jpg?v=1734061483","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/makeshift-seasons","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}