Anne Kennedy
Anne Kennedy’s most recent book is the narrative poem, The Time of the Giants (AUP). She has worked as a screenwriter, editor, and teacher of fiction and screenwriting.
Kennedy comments: ‘I wrote this (which is part of a longer thing), when my family and I were near the end of a seven-year stint in Honolulu. In the early days we used to joke that we had come to Hawaiiki, the resting place of spirits, early. The truth is I didn't like Hawai’i at first. The islands are often described as a paradise, and they are, but like anywhere, there are problems - one of them huge numbers of homeless. What I realized over time is that coming to know a place, its people, ways, and landscape, is to accept and then to love it. It is also to die a little to what went before. This sounds pretentious, but hopefully not in the poem – hopefully that’s what poems are for.’
