Author(s): Paula Green

New Zealand Poetry

Lyrical new poems from West Auckland poet Paula Green full of wonderful sounds and images, not afraid of the romance of memories, music, art, love, landscape. Features original art by Deborah Smith, Denis OâÃÂÃÂConnor, Sofia Tekela-Smith, Natalie Robertson, Michael Hight, Marie Shannon, SÃÂéraphine Pick, John Reynolds, Judy Millar, Gavin Hipkins, Elizabeth Rees, Gretchen Albrecht, Anne Noble and Carole Shepheard. "The word 'crosswind' evokes the unexpected. A wind blowing across our path may carry a leaf, a memory, a taste, a pungent smell. "I begin with the land, the familiar place that I need to tend my roots: I begin with the land, a foreign place that I need to cultivate a private elsewhere." Paula Green's third collection