Based on a True Story

David Gregory writes about the shifting, mutable, post-truth world, where an opinion is more valid than a demonstrable fact, where our recollections – seemingly as clear as photographs – may be just redacted and damaged files. But there is a place where the centre can hold – the poet holding onto the strings of many coloured balloons, or peering into the pictures held within tears.

At the point that our world is balanced on, there is a dialogue between fact and fiction. Based on a True Story is a phrasebook for such times.

In his fourth collection, Canterbury poet David Gregory once again turns tour-guide to the unreliable world of memory and perception, with his typical wit, humility and skill. This is a book to give your activist uncle, your poetry-sceptic neighbour, and your poetry-loving friends alike.

Format: Paperback
Imprint: Small New Zealand Publisher
Publication date: 01/08/2024