The Farewell Tourist

Pushing against the boundaries of what poetry might be, Alison Glenny's The Farewell Tourist is haunting, many-layered and slightly surreal.

In The Magnetic Process sequence, a man and a woman inhabit a polar world, adrift in zones of divergence where dreams are filled with snow, icebergs and sinking ships. Their scientific instruments and observations measure a fragmented and uncertain space where conventional perspectives are violated.

In a series of histories -- of the Atmosphere, of the Honeymoon -- footnotes reference vanished texts. By turns mysterious, ominous and evocative, they represent connections to an obscured narrative of disintegration and icy melancholy.

Featured in the 28 August 2018 New Zealand newsletter.
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Featured in the 2019 Ockham NZ Book Awards newsletter.
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