18 Sep 2022

No other place to stand - climate change poetry

From Standing Room Only, 1:46 pm on 18 September 2022
Rebecca Hawkes

Rebecca Hawkes Photo: Ebony Lamb Photography

Rebecca Hawkes

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It's easy to imagine that a new collection of Climate Change poetry from around the Pacific could be overwhelmingly a picture of doom and gloom.

But what the four Kiwi editors of No Other Place to Stand have achieved, is a balance of the angry and the philosophical, the sad and the satirical.

One of the editors, Canterbury poet Rebecca Hawkes, talks to Lynn Freeman about the collection's range.

The other editors involved with No Other Place to Stand are Jordan Hamel, Erik Kennedy and Essa Ranapiri.  It's published by Auckland University Press.