Thuds underneath / Brent Kininmont.

Poems.

Spotter -- The crop duster's daughter -- Nineteen -- Isthmus -- Giant gulps -- Attention -- Fault -- Small revolutions -- Tachrichim -- Level crossings -- He's not here and can't ask why -- Degree of empathy required -- Sweet talk -- Superphosphate.

The spot -- Self timer -- The labours -- Morphine -- The Christchurch Test -- Finishing touch -- The distractions -- Paying for tertiary -- Head to head -- From Kauru Hill -- The empty round -- Tinnitus -- What I remember about the movement -- Hitch -- What boys who sleep near airports know.

Pictures from the floating world -- Seto Ohaishi Bridge -- The God question -- Shopping -- Divine wind -- Smoke brigade -- A wild conception -- To the tadpoles -- Speexch balloons.

"The author's first collection of poetry musters scenes from antiquity, a life in Japan, and a preoccupation with flright in its varied forms. Islands are stepping stones for below; plains are bused, cycled, hiked across. At any moment a colossus might appear. A child's efforts to describe her own terrain keep company with poems tracing a mother's decline. Throughout these beautifully voiced and distilled pages, loud and faint thuds can be detected"--Publisher information.