Mutterings from a Spiry Crag
Jenny McLeod

	Art & Poetry Maori, NZ Society, Poetry Price: $19.99 Availability: now Format: 62pp A5 ISBN: 9781877577253 Add this book to your shopping bag

About the Book

Jenny McLeod, one of New Zealand’s most preeminent composing artists, has produced her first collected work of poetry, Mutterings from a Spiry Crag. McLeod tackles the personal and political with equal measures of passion and wry wit, to create an extremely strong collection of poetry. Encompassing a variety of themes such as the war in Iraq, whānau, and life in Pukerua Bay, the book has broad appeal both locally and internationally. 

sorry bird, when it’s you or us
we’re apt to be stony-hearted,
muttering on spiry crags
about eagles, powers and higher things,
and wondering what you might taste like … 

About the Author

Jenny McLeod lives and mutters at Pukerua Bay, on the precipitous west coast of the North Island, New Zealand. In 1971, at the age of 29, she was appointed  professor of music at Victoria University of Wellington. She is renowned for works such as Earth and Sky (1968), Under the Sun (1971), and more recently her celebration of the poetry of Janet Frame, The Poet (1998). In 1997 she was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, and in 2008  was awarded the Composer’s Association of New Zealand KBB Citation for services to New Zealand music.