My Thoughts are all of Swimming

Described by Paula Green as “a breathtaking album you want on repeat”, My Thoughts Are All of Swimming is the award-winning debut poetry collection of Rose Collins.

Rose lost her battle with cancer in early May 2023 – barely nine months after the book’s initial launch. This second edition includes a foreword by her mother, Siobhan Collins.

\”This highly accomplished, beautifully ordered collection of consistently stunning poems, ranges from the wide-lensed beginning to a focus on the particular, from crater to soup bowl … There is a steadiness of tone, a poise, an assured fully-developed voice, clear-seeing, measuring, at times almost forensic … This contest of two forces is where the pleasure of poetry lies.

My thoughts are all of swimming is a remarkable collection, not just for its range or titles or skill, but for the sense it builds of the poet as a personality … whatever the subject Rose Collins has the enviable ability to be both present and an observer at the same time. My thoughts are all of swimming has the best kind of style, the subsumed kind that accentuates personality rather than diminishes it.\”

– ELIZABETH SMITHER

Format: Paperback
Imprint: Small New Zealand Publisher
Publication date: 01/12/2023