{"product_id":"midnight-plane-selected-and-new-poems","title":"Midnight Plane: Selected \u0026 New Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Midnight Plane\u003c\/em\u003e, Dame Fiona Kidman, one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most distinguished writers, returns to her first and deepest literary love, poetry. This beautifully curated volume opens with selected work from Kidman’s six previous collections, chronologically ordered, and concludes in the present day with a body of exciting new poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Midnight Plane \u003c\/em\u003ecomes in to land exactly half a century after the 1975 publication of Kidman’s debut book, the poetry collection \u003cem\u003eHoney and Bitters\u003c\/em\u003e. There’s a sense in which \u003cem\u003eThe Midnight Plane\u003c\/em\u003e works like an alternative memoir, offering a poet’s immediacy of vision and gift of linguistic precision on a life unfolding in real time. From the first line to the last, \u003cem\u003eThe Midnight Plane\u003c\/em\u003e speaks to human relationships, to connection and disconnection, to the mystery and the majesty of life, to seasons of loss and cycles of renewal. Each of these poems is, in its own way, a midnight plane, flying in the dark, navigating for home in sometimes perilous conditions. ‘What I know,’ writes Kidman in her generous preface to this landmark collection, ‘is that poetry has the power to shake the heart’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eHere it comes swooping \u003cbr\u003eagainst the stars, perfectly poised \u003cbr\u003eabove the unruly winds …\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003efrom ‘The midnight plane’\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Midnight Plane : Selected And New Poems","offer_id":44484858806469,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/9781991348005.jpg?v=1740277917","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/midnight-plane-selected-and-new-poems","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}