Anne Kennedy

Anne Kennedy has published five books of fiction and poetry. She has won several awards, including the 2004 Montana New Zealand Poetry Award. Her most recent book is the narrative sequence, The Time of the Giants (Auckland University Press, 2005). She has worked as a screenwriter and editor, and currently teaches writing at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa.

Kennedy comments: ‘ “The Pinkish Wine” is one of a sequence of retold fairytales. In writing these poems I returned to a theme I’d written about before, and which still intrigues me – contemporary parental over-involvement. It’s funny, and seems to be necessary these days. I also set off trudging along a path after Anne Sexton, whose re-imagined fairytales flit lightly ahead of me.’

Poem: The Pinkish Wine 

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