I'm currently half way through
The Best of Best New Zealand Poetry edited and compiled by Bill Manhire and Damien Wilkins. In his intro, Wilkins said
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If I were put against a wall and asked to make any sort of general observation about the poetry here, it would have something to do with, well, fun. Not a very high-minded concept, I know. A kind of buoyancy then. Or lightness
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At the halfway point, the recurring themes that have come up most often BY FAr, almost every poem it seems, are aging, mortality and death. Clearly he and I have
rather different personal definitions of "fun" and "lightness"
