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Author :  Elizabeth Kirkby-McLeod

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Country
New Zealand
Publisher
The Cuba Press, New Zealand
ISBN 9781988595054
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2019
Bib. Info 84p.
Product Weight 200 gms.
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'I have no words.' This is so often our response to grief and loss, when dealing with it ourselves or consoling others. Elizabeth's father took his own life in 2012. Unable to find words of her own to write about what had happened, Elizabeth took them instead from the 2006 Penguin Classics edition of 'Twelve Angry Men', a play she and her father attended together when Elizabeth was a teenager, and combined these with the New Zealand Government's Fact Sheet 4 - Suicide and Self-Harm'. Armed with this limited dictionary, she was able to write poems that are by turns mournful, angry and searching. The cumulative effect is surprising in its narrative drive and cathartic power.

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