One of the Wild Kids
One of the Wild Kids
Aotearoa's young writers pour their minds and hearts into stories, poems, graphic arts and reflections that make up this rich volume. From familiar New Zealand landscapes to surreal imaginings, these offerings demonstrate a remarkable resilience in the face of what has been yet another difficult year. There is displacement and ambivalence, even grief. The darkness lurks here: these writers have, after all, grown up in our post-everything century.
And yet in these pages you will find humour and perspective, a sense of the absurd and the joyous.
If these young writers represent the future, we can be reassured by their sense of reality that also holds a thread of kindness, of hope, of looking ahead.
Discover ‘a world alive, where it all begins’. – from a poem by Nikki Li
What People Have Said
“One of the things that interests me about this year's crop is the formal care these writers are taking with their work. Both poems and prose are thoroughly constructed and almost without exception give the impression of being completed to the satisfaction of author and reader alike. This includes the more experimental contributions of, for example, Darcy Monteath and Sebastian Pelayo. I suppose I'm saying there is often a healthy and positive awareness of audience.
While not specifically Covid, the tension is there in the Year 13s and first-year Uni students. For the younger ones at least there is the hope it will be over before their more significant rites of passage.”
— Tony Beyer, poet and former English teacher.
Details
Authors
Various
Edited by James Norcliffe, Glyn Strange and Michelle Elvy
Published
2022
Version
Soft-bound
ISBN: 978-0-9951205-3-2
ISSN: 1176-1806
Availability
Available from Clerestory Press.
Free postage within New Zealand.