Sick Power Trip
SKU: 9781776922901
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Author:KENNEDY Erik
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ISBN:9781776922901
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Publication Date:July 2025
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Pages:104
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Binding:Paperback
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Publisher:Te Herenga Waka University Press
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Country of Publication:New Zealand
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I stored my plan for world peace safely in my coat pocket, and then I washed the coat.
Sick Power Trip is Erik Kennedy's most personal and vulnerable book yet. These are poems that tell us: the world is unwell, and sometimes writers are, too. Kennedy scrutinises the broken social contract and the dangerous actors who seem determined to dominate us, and writes with open eyes about long COVID and living wages, self-medication and sea temperatures. If it feels like we're stuck in a post-truth moment,...