Sarah Broom

Sarah Broom's first poetry collection, Tigers at Awhitu, was published by Carcanet Press and Auckland University Press in 2010. She was born in Dunedin in 1972 and now lives in Auckland with her husband and three children. In 2006 she published Contemporary British and Irish Poetry: An Introduction (Palgrave Macmillan).

Broom comments: 'I seem to remember that in writing "North" it was the landscape that came first, a very harsh, cold landscape, and also that phrase, "the shapeless north". Then the people emerged, lonely figures driven by fear and longing, drawn by that image of the boat and the sea which overwhelmingly symbolises rest. They are refugees, but I don't imagine any particular geographical context, in fact the setting feels to me almost mythologised.'

Poem: North

Links

Carcanet Press:Tigers at Awhitu

Auckland University Press: Tigers at Awhitu

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