Flow : Whanganui River Poems

Wherever bodies of water are, people settle, and stories collect. Six generations of poet Airini Beautrais family have lived near the Whanganui River, the restless, all-encompassing figure at the heart of her fourth collection Flow. Flow is a brilliant polyphony of stories large, small, geological, ecological, and human that draw on many forms and voices and move through various stages of human settlement up to the present day. In March 2017, in a world first, the Whanganui River was granted the status of legal personhood.

Featured in the 24 July 2017 New Zealand / Pasifika Newsletter.
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