At This Distance

Many of the poems in Dunstan Ward's second collection are set in France, where he has lived since 1973. Some look back to his New Zealand childhood, others are aphoristic or commemorative. In his Landfall Online review of Ward's firstcollection, Beyond Puketapu (Steele Roberts, 2015), Denys Trussell praised him as a poet with an intellectual power that sees issues without in the least 'drying up' the poetic anima within him.

Featured in the 04 November 2019 New Zealand newsletter.
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