Poetry Nz 32

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ISBN: POETNZ32
Title: Poetry Nz 32
Author: POETRY NEW ZEALAND

Issue 32 features the work of Jessica Le Bas, winner of the 2005 Bravado Poetry Competition. She has been writing poetry since the age of six, and has spent the last twelve months as a full time writer.

As far as it’s possible to tell, poetry appears to have been composed and enjoyed for perhaps as long as language has been used. People like to talk to each other and listen to others speak. They enjoy the experience of language whether it’s in spoken or written form, whether it’s an immediate part of the social situation or otherwise, whether it’s recorded in books and magazines, or delivered electronically by television and radio, or on the internet.

Poetry’s pervasiveness and its persistence over so many millennia (in spite of its current lack of economic viability) suggests it’s something more fundamental than pleasure alone – that it could be an essential part of being human rather than some kind of add-on, that it might have its origins deep in the ancient limbic system of the brain, and perhaps even possess survival aspects.

Format: Paperback
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