Song of Less

Description

A post-apocalyptic tale of kin, connection and environmental loss. 'The crisis is upon us, but abstraction is a bulwark. Deafness, everywhere. We have come to an edge. I want to find a way of taking the truth into my body, and then putting it down into the ground. From somewhere offstage, a misery of voices begins to murmur in the scrounge. What starts up is a grief work.' - Joan Fleming 'In a shadeless season, on a blistered earth, a small band of humans are singing. They are trying to remember; they have tried to forget. They are making up something from the things that are left. They are salvaging. Song of less: this song we are singing in the wreckage.' - Anwen Crawford

Joan Fleming's honors include the Biggs Poetry Prize, a Creative New Zealand writing fellowship, the Verge Prize for Poetry and the Harri Jones Memorial Prize from the Hunter Writers Centre. She holds a PhD in ethnopoetics from Monash University, is on the programming team for the Unamuno Author Series in Madrid and is the Aotearoa/New Zealand Commissioning Editor for Cordite Poetry Review.