Morgan Bach

Morgan Bach is from Wellington, though she is currently living in London. Her first book, Some of Us Eat the Seeds, was published by Victoria University Press in 2015. She co-edits the online journal Sweet Mammalian with poets Hannah Mettner and Sugar Magnolia Wilson.

Bach comments: ‘In the middle years of my childhood my mother and I upped sticks and moved to a small town called Te Kuiti. This poem draws on memories of that time, which are boring and nostalgic and sometimes a bit magic, like childhood itself.

‘For readers in the northern hemisphere I should note our summer holidays of course contained Christmas, after which they rolled on with a kind of incendiary boredom that I conversely hoped would never end, because in it you existed outside the rules.’

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