Family instructions upon release
By: Elizabeth Kirkby-McLeod
Publisher: The Cuba Press
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9781988595054
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Grief; Poetry; Loss (Psychology)
Notes: Poems.
Table of contents: title: Act 1: Examining the crime scene: Exhibit A; title: Two tickets to Twelve Angry Men; title: The drama begins; title: Act 1; title: Act 1 for Daughter; title: Between Acts, where belief comes from; title: Between Acts, an explanation; title: Act 2; title: Act 2 for Father; title: After; title: Into the woods they go; title: Into the woods is life; title: Into the woods is Death; title: A planning poem; title: Her warning signs; title: Why?; title: Act 2: Observing the deliberations: Daughter goes to hospital by car; title: Father goes to hospital by ambulance; title: Waiting room game 1; title: Waiting room game 2; title: A hospital stay; title: Family therapy: a sonnet; title: Wellness; title: Family instructions upon release; title: His little apologies; title: Normal time; title: Locked out in August: Osage County; title: Miscarriage; title: Daughter goes to hospital another time; title: Ways his mind might not be like your mind; title: The effect of his absence; title: Why he can't sleep again; title: A matter of timing; title: Preventable; title: An action song in place of an action plan; title: Effort; title: Off script; title: Revisiting Twelve Angry Men; title: Miscarriage number 2; title: Map of effort-hospital coordinates R8:38; title: Waiting room game 3; title: The brain; title: Act 3: Handing out the sentence: Placing blame; title: Funeral storytelling; title: After burial: grief; title: Maybe; title: Pictures; title: Leaving; title: Antenatal class; title: Returning; title: Birth; title: Rebirth; title: Ducking out; title: Evening lullaby; title: Daughter's son gets a casting call; title: Daughter gets a casting call; title: Critics review: To my father.