Bird Murder / Cinema / Heart Absolutely I Can

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Bird Murder: Stefanie Lash is a poet and archivist who lives in Wellington. Her poems have appeared in journals including Sport, Takahe and Turbine. An albino huia, a stranger in the attic and a pink-haired woman...Bird Murder is a gothic murder mystery narrating the demise of a ruined banker, set in the not-quite-fictional town of Tusk. Cinema: Helen Rickerby is a poet, editor and publisher who lives in Wellington. She has published 2.5 collections of poetry with the chapbook Heading North (Kilmog 2010) her most recent. She is co-managing editor of JAAM and runs boutique poetry publisher Seraph Press. The poems in Cinema look at the personal through the lens of a camera and the world of cinema through the unfiltered eye. Meet the boy who learns to kiss from action movies, the girl made up of symbols and the director with the aesthetic of a sniper on the roof. Heart Absolutely I Can: Michael Harlow is a poet, publisher and librettist who lives in Alexandra. Born in the USA with Greek and Ukrainian heritage, he settled in New Zealand in 1968. Michael has published seven collections of poetry including Giotto's Elephant and The Tram Conductor's Blue Cap, both finalists in the NZ Book Awards, and has been awarded a number of writer residencies. Five fresh poems and a number from Michael's past collections form his book on the hoopla of love--a theme long a part of this poet's fascination with the mysteries of human nature, and his job in finding the language and music to express it. Like the title poem, Michael Harlow bids 'the music of the heart to sing us alive'.