Reviews
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‘She seems to me a poet of scale and embodiment. Her moments are informed by awe and intelligence – quick and seamless. They don’t have to try so hard. I felt novels and films in these poems. I thought: this is a poet of capacity.’
— Eileen Myles |
'It’s hard for poems to be funny without undermining their own seriousness, but Arthur’s are like that.'
— Kate Camp |
'Jane Arthur takes, in a phrase lifted from one of them, a “sharp, large knife” to the speaker’s observed reality: she cuts it and refashions it into something new and strange, and transports us there.'
— Judges' comments, Ockham NZ Book Awards 2020 |