Lucky punch
By: Simone Kaho
Publisher: Anahera Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Auckland, New Zealand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9780473367510
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: New Zealand poetry; New Zealand prose literature
Description: Lucky Punch is a love story set in tiny natural worlds sheltering from the encroaching urban dystopia of 1980s Auckland. The characters grow up together, yearn, fight, dream and stare at walls. Their personality quirks clash with social norms as they navigate through cultural voids and colonial Pacific bloodlines. This is modern lyric storytelling with the pace of flash fiction, deceptively matter-of-fact poems with alluring depths that yield more each read and hard angles that can leave a bruise. Step inside this beguiling world where wildness prowls the neighbourhood.
Notes: Poems.
Table of contents: title: Marry; title: Kids; title: Log; title: Prey; title: The shed; title: Waterfall; title: Bulls; title: Waterview; title: Japanese cedar; title: Fir tree; title: Oak; title: Spiders; title: Sister; title: Wonder; title: Protest; title: Splash; title: Overstayer; title: Home; title: Standards; title: Half; title: Pretty; title: Celebration; title: Blues; title: Host; title: Patu; title: Ready; title: Handsome; title: Girls; title: Fork; title: Ask; title: Penny; title: Nurse; title: Wine; title: Remember; title: Gates; title: High; title: Clever; title: Dam; title: Habit; title: Paradise; title: Make up; title: Comfort; title: Safe; title: Inch; title: Growing; title: Indians; title: Help; title: Walk; title: Wētā; title: Herb; title: Nest; title: Games; title: Bunny; title: Fallen; title: Waiting; title: Choices; title: Fight; title: Couch; title: Punching; title: Tattoo; title: Sheep; title: Goodnight; title: 3AM; title: World; title: Room; title: Green eyes; title: Pills; title: Drinks; title: Stars; title: Hello; title: Baby; title: Song; title: Feeding; title: Tiny; title: Sleep; title: Dollhouse; title: Stubborn; title: Red Sea; title: Curtains; title: Over; title: Jam; title: Still; title: See.