Edited by Anne Kennedy (Auckland University Press, 2023)
Poetry is written as much for the ear as for the eye, and the more than 200 poems anthologised in Remember Me were chosen with this in mind. As editor Anne Kennedy explains in her introduction, these are works which “employ a kind of music to convey perception and image, occasion and story, and often the big emotions of love and loss.”
Go on, say them out loud: “a memory of my grandmother at the / beginning of the century riding / back to Hokitika in the dead of night / Halley’s Comet trailing like a kite” (Gregory O’Brien); “bass always makes it home / just like greenstone” (Ben Brown); “you made me feel / the sun wheeled in me / the moon on my tongue” (Hinemoana Baker).
Laura Williamson
