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Another Beautiful Day Indoors
Paperback Edition: 1
Another Beautiful Day Indoors is more likely to end with a dark flood than a beautiful sundown. As these poems grapple with climate catastrophe, precarious labour, and love, they draw on the full, rich weirdness of the human-made world, with its self-driving cars, official geese and open-plan offices modelled on heaven. A sequence of magical realist short fictions explore 'essential works'; elsewhere Erik Kennedy wonders what it is like to work in the satellite insurance sector. Somehow he gets away with rhyming 'guesses' with 'yeses'. And somehow, even as this book comes up against the most ominous aspects of our future, it uplifts.
Pages : 96
Publisher : Te Herenga Waka University Pre
Publication date : 2022-04-14
Subjects: Fiction, Published in New Zealand, NZ Poetry