Description: I live in Dunedin, New Zealand and have been writing for most of my life. For a long time, I thought poetry would be my only writing genre, but now my creative instincts have guided me outwards to explore a wider range of forms and collaborations.
Welcome to my site. I live in Dunedin, New Zealand and have been writing for most of my life. For a long time, I thought poetry would be my only writing genre, but now my creative instincts have guided me outwards to explore a wider range of forms and collaborations.
Available from Cold Hub Press / NZ$29.95
Jenny Powell's MEETING RITA is a collection of forty-seven poems inspired by New Zealand artist Rita Angus (1908-70). Rita has shifted in time to become the poet's friend. As Powell says: "Rita and I had much in common. We might have enjoyed each other's company." Within the poems they converse. There is a poetic response to Rita at a number of levels. Many of the poems reference specific paintings and actual episodes in Angus's life and in a series of imagined encounters poet and painter share experiences