In this book of poetry, Kay McKenzie Cooke's theme is one of finding a home in this world an authentic poetry of place. With a fidelity toward experience, Cooke's gift is capturing people in day-to-day incidental situations and forging poetry out of common speech which she unpretentiously synthesizes with an elemental energy. These poems contain an array of striking images through the passing of seasons, developed from Cooke's exposure, as a child and adolescent, to the wind-whipped coastline of Orepuki, New Zealand. Her ...
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In this book of poetry, Kay McKenzie Cooke's theme is one of finding a home in this world an authentic poetry of place. With a fidelity toward experience, Cooke's gift is capturing people in day-to-day incidental situations and forging poetry out of common speech which she unpretentiously synthesizes with an elemental energy. These poems contain an array of striking images through the passing of seasons, developed from Cooke's exposure, as a child and adolescent, to the wind-whipped coastline of Orepuki, New Zealand. Her book, Feeding the Dogs, won the Jessie Mackay Award for best first book of poetry.
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