Amy Brown
Amy Brown recently left Wellington to do a Ph.D in creative writing at the University of Melbourne. Her thesis involves writing a modern epic poem—whatever that might be.
Brown comments: ‘ “The Propaganda Poster Girl” is quite a literal title for a poem about the figure in a Vietnamese propaganda poster, which hung on the wall above my computer while I wrote the book. After a year of writing mainly from my own point of view and about myself, looking up and seeing this surrogate subject was a relief. I think the poem became so long because I was enjoying writing it.’
