O'Rourke, Maris

Singing with both throats / Maris O'Rourke. - 72 pages ; 23 cm

Poems.

Kiss and kick -- Fire alarm -- Engagements -- Marriage -- Friday night in Te Kuiti -- Water baby -- Birth -- Spells to tame children -- Selling the family tent -- Separation -- War survivors -- Secret selves -- Heartbreak -- On being told I'm to be a Grandmother : a villanelle -- Tangi time -- Beijing boys -- In passing -- Three encounters on Rannoch Moor -- Femmes au jardin -- Cimitière du Père-Lachaise -- Seen in St Germain -- When in Rome -- Rathways -- Echoes -- At Kaikoura -- Auckland coast to coast : a sonnet -- Okahu Bay : a sonnet -- Back to back -- Black magic -- Train lovers -- Lifelines -- The green house -- The map on Taru's wall -- Antipodes -- Aotearoa : a sonnet -- I-lands -- Friend -- Night sky -- Pathfinder -- Harakeke -- Tui -- A pair of spotted turtle doves -- Free to go -- Frisson of fear -- Petition -- Full circle.

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