Lilting bees and unidentifiable birds, long-division problems and
continental cornflakes: three remarkable voices arrive in AUP New Poets
8. In AUP New Poets 8, Lily Holloway, Tru Paraha, and Modi Deng come
together to produce a volume of remarkable inventions and intoxications.
Lily Holloway leads off with her collection 'a child in that alcove, '
using an inventive approach to form to lead the reader into the ordinary
extraordinary events of daily life, her poetry filling them with dazzle
and dread, questions and memories. Then Tru Paraha takes us inside 'my
darkling universe'--a world 'perpetually astral' and 'utterly
spaghettified, ' a poetic universe of unexpected letters and words and
forms, where te reo Maori collides with atomic chemistry. Finally, Modi
Deng travels through time and space into the lives of Brahms and
backpackers, where uneasy conversations between mothers and children,
between 'the subjects and myself, ' between Beijing and London, provide
beauty and solace. Three new voices, three compelling visions, all bound
together in AUP New Poets 8.