Thursday, August 14, 2014

Wellington book launch invite: Sleeping on Horseback by Frances Samuel



Victoria University Press warmly invites you to this launch of Frances Samuel's debut collection of poetry, Sleeping on Horseback.

Tuesday 9 September
5.30pm-7pm

at The Guest Room
The Southern Cross Garden Bar
39 Abel Smith St, Te Aro

Editor and poet Ashleigh Young will launch the book.
Unity Books will sell Sleeping on Horseback at the launch
and Frances will be available to sign copies. $25, paperback
 
In her first collection, Frances Samuel leads us into the lives of characters we have not met before in New Zealand poetry. A man with a snorkel trawls fountains for coins; a vending machine produces a sailboat; a zookeeper frees all of his animals; we look for our double so that we can join the ark before it sails. Each step forward clears a path of snow, and contemplates the question ‘How do we get there?’ These journeys, surreal as well as everyday, are mapped with an exuberant imagination and intelligence

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