Leaving the Tableland
Kerry Popplewell

	Art & Poetry Poetry Price: $19.99 Availability: now Format: 138mm x 210mm, 72 pages, softcover ISBN: 9781877448959 Add this book to your shopping bag

About the Book

Today before I woke the wind got up — 
arranged the light grey cloud 
into a flounder’s bones, 
detached small birds 
as if they were the frailest leaves. 

Then it crooned in the wires:
‘You too shall be removed 
from every hold, each anchor point you trust.’

About the Author

Apart from four years while studying at the University of Chicago, Kerry Popplewell has lived in Wellington all her adult life. Despite this, she grew up in Hawke’s Bay and thinks of the Kaweka and Ruahine ranges as her home territory. Since she stopped teaching over ten years ago, her poems have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. This first collection would have happened sooner had she not been distracted by grandchildren and her interest in tramping.