Mettle by Anne-Marie Te Whiu

Mettle by Anne-Marie Te WhiuMettle by Anne Marie Te Whiu A remarkable and impressive debut collection of poems that speak to the complexity of family, identity and the proud legacy of Maori language and culture. 'Te Whiu's poetic voice is bright, and new. As well as vividly poetic storytelling the humour here is mordant in the best spirit of a bustling diverse indigenous poetics, it excels' Robert Sullivan The poetic visions of Mettle echo through past and present lives memories

A must-read for fans of Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Maria Semple's Where'd You Go

There are suddenly all these new people in her life

Ashlee completed a Master of Education (UTS

A hidden land of beasts and birds

she strives to understand her bond with Arcturus

Jackson Brodie returns

By the time she wakes up

Consider this book an invitation to make a whole group of new best friends

Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul

to a more spacious consideration of our collective grief and the many ways our lives have been impacted by changing weather patterns

Weep as Scott Morrison's communist great-great-aunt Mary Gilmore holds a hose in New Australia

In this revised edition