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Jo Thorpe

	Art & Poetry Poetry Price: $19.99 Availability: now Format: 165mm x 231mm, softback, 64 pages ISBN: 9781877577185 Add this book to your shopping bag

About the Book

The poems in this collection range from the complexities of human relationships to the simplicities of light, rock, sea and sky; from myths and the metaphysical to ‘the marvellousness of now’. 

Jo’s first book Len & other poems was inspired by kinetic artist Len Lye. Reviewers said her touch was sure, the content filled with subtle energy … sophisticated, visual and clever.

‘Jo’s poems seem entirely continuous with the world of movement. Some of them are actually about dance of course; but more often they behave like dance. They watch movement occur, they notice it; but in their own right they also move … It’s as if the Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus are circling one another on every page.’ 
— Bill Manhire

Read Mary McCallum's review.

You can also read a poem from the book, ‘Hunt the slipper: a romantic divertissement’, at Tuesday Poem.
 

About the Author

See Jo Thorpe's page at the New Zealand Book Council website.