Join us to celebrate the arrival of two excellent new poetry collections: New Days for Old by James Brown and Peace & Quiet by Dinah Hawken. The books will be launched by Jenny Bornholdt.

Thursday 23 April, 6pm
Unity Books Wellington
All welcome!

James Brown’s New Days for Old is a delightful experiment in form.

Each scene in this book is like a 1-minute pop song: its depths are at first easy to miss. But as the story proceeds, the grand scheme of things hoves into view: we are born, we crawl and then are carried away, and everything is a-shimmer, even the disappointments

‘How does James Brown do it? Every page in this book is my favourite.’ —Bill Manhire

What use is poetry in times of ecological and political turbulence? Dinah Hawken’s Peace and Quiet grapples with this question, invoking both human voices and the voices — ‘the silt and the slash’ — of the natural world.

Powerful and illuminating, these poems show that peace, gentleness and reflection are a form of resistance.

‘This is poetry that digs deeply into existence, life and death, peace ahead of war, the power of silence and the power of the spoken.’ —Paula Green