Over 110 pages by an award-winning NZ writer who's written a verse novel and a book that combines prose with poetry. The pieces in this book are sold as poems. Many read like journal entries or chatty anecdotes. I liked it more the faster I read it. I quite liked "First you have to find the words to describe" and "Under the trees". She pads out the book with line-breaks and casual prose. The first 3rd of "How to frame it" is "the inmate said the first thing he'll do when he gets out is lie on the grass eyes facing up raining or not" with 10(!) line-breaks added. "Going by a photo" begins with "no such thing as a clear/ blue sky in middle age/ you know a cloud's got to be/ hanging around somewhere". Well, yeah. At the start of the third section of the book she formats the text into a 12 line first stanza and a 2-line second stanza.
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