Title: Fully clothed and so forgetful /
Authors: Mettner, Hannah
Year: 2017
Subjects: New Zealand poetry
Abstract: "Fully Clothed and So Forgetful is an intimate, intelligent first book by Hannah Mettner. Moving through love, motherhood, sexuality, family and anxiety, these poems infuse universal themes with wit and sudden, even shocking beauty"-- Back cover.
Contents: Higher ground -- Father in the garden -- A history -- Sisters -- Every day is a fright -- Baking a maybe -- The invisible mother -- Girl talk -- Having a smoke with my uncles -- Other places -- On not seeing ghosts -- Motuoroi Island, Anuara Bay -- In the forest of the night -- The world tree -- Clifford Street -- Trip with mum -- The day Amy died -- Another failed sea battle -- An argument for reincarnation illustrated by cars -- The war got good ratings -- Cult catalogue -- Kōan for Roberta -- Alone in the woods -- Cat chakra alignments -- Reasons Ross should be happy -- Feminist poem starring my best friend -- Sex dream -- Timeline of things you missed out on in the seventies -- First and last -- My children are abducted by 17th century French courtesans -- What Alice knows -- Queen bed -- Schrodinger's pink corduory miniskirt -- The love poem -- Gender buttons -- Things you could do with time travel -- Optics -- A well-lit room -- Into the purple -- Ways we love -- Maps of space drawn in the dark -- Opening night -- Obscured by clouds -- How we fucked up -- Living alone -- All tall women -- The proof of a lady -- Bones