num_pages: 118
description: I went straight into the sea. I wanted its lift and cold its salt its curve and its breaking. I remembered its clarity. I loved its heartiness and with that I remembered the recent dead. Ocean and Stone Dinah Hawkens seventh collection of poetry is a book of many elements. The central sequence page : stone : leaf interspersed with the striking drawings of John Edgar is framed by poems of growing up and growing old. They in turn are framed by poems written in the natural world beside a lake and beside an ocean. At the heart of this book is urgency: the urgency to know the limits of our planet and ourselves and to live within them. Ocean and Stone is elemental Dinah Hawken at once meditative and resolute.
language: English
title: Ocean and Stone
publisher: Victoria University Press