Kinds of Hunger : Poems

We have no poet quite like Jan Hutchison - a nature poet of course, but so much more than this: her imaginative leaps are startling; her mind ever quizzical, puzzling at what is just beyond perception. Her voice, too, is utterly original, relishing the magic of names, of forgotten words, the beauty of Maori lore and language, of incantatory neologisms, of locating the misic in the words and making words sing. She can range from the playfulness of Springing Grasses and The Cricket to the elegiac wistfulness of Poems for HinekuraAmong Spoonbills and everything inbetween. Kinds of Hunger is a rich and deeply rewarding collection.
-- James Norcliffe.

Featured in the 11 September 2017 New Zealand / Pasifika Newsletter.
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