About Now

by Richard Reeve

New Zealand poetry

Contains:
In a Habitable Zone
Recycled Rimu
Prospects
Blackbird During Lockdown
Butterflies
The Elite
Judicial Notice
In a Country Churchyard
Pæan
Second Thought
Westies Camp
Temptation
Submerged in the Flow
Peter Hooper
Rock and Pillar
Posts
Deed
Frankton Supermarket, Queenstown
Dog With Its Head Out a Window
The Deal With the Cat
Final Word
Free Pile
Postcard to Mr Clare
Unsustainable Preservation
How to Fail Utterly
Though I Pretend to Be
about Now
Ancestors
Pastoral
Legal Systems
The Knack
Walkers in the Snow
Sermon
Boom
Joan Our Icon
To a Friend
The Days Will Come
Horse and Sheep
Living and Dying
Living and Dying in Taranaki
Canto the First
Dutch Master
Detour
Monkey With a Drinking Straw
Undertakings
Voices, Roses
Last Days
In Which I Imagine It Is Larry's Birthday
The Dead
Dogs on Beaches
Gathering
The Hearth of the Rain
And the Pukeko Shall Rule
Rain Poems
Acknowledgments

99 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2024

About the author

Richard Reeve is a New Zealand poet. He has published seven collections of poetry, Dialectic of Mud (AUP 2001), The Life and the Dark (AUP 2004), In Continents (AUP 2004), The Among (Maungatua Press 2008), Generation Kitchen (OUP 2015), Horse and Sheep (Maungatua Press 2019) and About Now (Maungatua Press 2024). Reeve holds a Ph.D. on 'New Zealand Poetic Reality' from the University of Otago and has previously been a professional editor. He now practises law as a barrister.

Reviews

[James · Rating 5 out of 5]

A beautiful, thoughtful, set of poems. The words resonate, and leave a lasting impression in the reader's mind.