In the cracks of light

in the
cracks of light, Apirana Taylor’s seventh book of poetry, shows one of Aotearoa
New Zealand’s most prolific and versatile writers at his best. The
seventy-three short poems here challenge our conceptions of poetic form. They
are minimalist in construction but ambitious in emotional impact. They burst
out of their small spaces like gas expanding in a cylinder and pushing a
piston. They expertly inhabit both the natural and the political worlds,
sometimes simultaneously, because Taylor is wise enough to know that they can’t
be separated, especially in a colonised land. A new volume by Apirana Taylor is
an occasion. Relish it.

Format: Paperback
Pages: 84
Imprint: Canterbury University Press
Publication date: 31/05/2025