It’s New Zealand Poetry Day! If there is just one poetry book you get your hands on this year, make it Western Line by Airni Beautrais.

The follow-up to Airini Beautrais’s acclaimed debut collection Secret Heart demonstrates the growing reach and authority of her writing. The three sequences of ‘Love Poems’, ‘Charms’ and ‘Curses’ are an arrestingly original mix of observation, performance and jokes. A section of lyric poems slows the pace, and then four powerful long poems take the reader travelling, through memory and into the present, through the Whanganui backblocks, rural Germany, and other places.

It may well be the best $28.00 you’ll spend this poetry day. Click here to order.

Also be sure to friend us on facebook to learn about upcoming readings with Airni Beautrais at Paige’s Book Gallery. You’ll also find a full list of poetry day events around the nation.

From the Poetic People at Paige’s