Table of Contents

Contents: Homing In, Wild Sweets, Weekend Sonnets, The Rope, Time on the surface, Otherwise, Luncheon Cove, Mungo, Out the Black Window, Silver, By the Water, Studio Poem, Under the Tree, How to Make a Wind Harp, Low Tide Aramoana, The Mess we made at Port Chalmers, Draughty, Kitchen Table, From the Flounder Inn, Via Media, Daughter, Hokianga Poem, Death Finds the Bishop, Silk, Fuse, Benzina, Knots, Slinky, Recipe for One, Warp, To Ben at the Lake, Promises, Mist on Motupohue, Request

About the Author

Cilla McQueen was the New Zealand Poet Laureate 200911. She has published 14 volumes of poetry and has won the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry three times. Her work has been extensively anthologised. Cilla's most recent publication was Edwin's Egg and other poetic novellas (OUP, 2014).