Brent Kininmont

Except for a year in Wellington completing a masters in creative writing, Brent Kininmont has for the past decade lived in Tokyo, working mostly as a journalist. His poems have appeared in Landfall, Sport, Turbine and elsewhere.

Kininmont comments: ' "Morphine" is a memory of my mother, though it once had a different title and was about my child sleeping.'

Poem: Morphine

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