NZ Poetry
How I Get Ready
Author(s): Ashleigh Young
In her latest poetry collection How I Get Ready, Ashleigh Young fails to learn to drive, vanishes from the fossil record, and finally finishes writing a book.
An Ashleigh Young poem is a world: hospitable, strange, a little off kilter. The poems in How I Get Ready bristle with humour and curiosity; they are idiosyncratically observant and keenly empathetic. That empathy is extended to the reader – the poems confide and beguile, providing access not just to the speaker's travails but also to those of lives remote in history: the compulsive disorder of a sensitive young man living in the early 20th Century, for example, or the emotional anguish of the late medieval mystic, Margery Kempe.
Shortlisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards - Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry 2020
Ashleigh Young is the author of the poetry collection Magnificent Moon (VUP, 2012), and the essay collection Can You Tolerate This? (VUP, 2016) which won a Windham-Campbell Prize from Yale University and the Royal Society Te Aparangi Award for General Non-Fiction in 2017. She works as an editor and lives in Wellington.
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Imprint : Victoria University Press
Author : Ashleigh Young
BIC subject : DC