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Saga, Hannah Mettner,Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2023

‘Birth control’

‘Beep test’

Hannah Mettner is a Wellington-based poet from Gisborne. Her first collection, Fully Clothed and So Forgetful, won the 2018 Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry. Her second collection, Saga, was released in August 2023. She is co-founder, with Morgan Bach and Sugar Magnolia Wilson, of Sweet Mammalian, an online poetry journal launched in 2014.

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