Moth Hour

Anne Kennedy does something quite new in each of her poetry collections. In this book she returns to the death of an older brother Philip (known as Moth) many years ago when he was 22. At the centre of the book is a poem that Philip wrote Come catch me little child and Anne Kennedy's variations on that poem. Moth Hour is a thought-provoking (on variations, music, the counterculture in New Zealand, mental illness) and a gripping, emotional arm wrestle with tragedy.