parallel

by Jillian Sullivan

This sequence based on Sullivan’s Kathleen Grattan Prize winning poems captures that time in life where everything changes: children leave home, parents die, a partner has a midlife crisis and new life arrives.

Poignant, humorous and honest meditations on love, loss and reconnection across the generations.

“A sensitively connected sequence … held me from beginning to end with its tender, understated sophistication.” ~ Selina Tusitala Marsh (co-judge for the Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems)

64 pages, Paperback

First published August 3, 2014

About the author

Jillian Sullivan has published novels, collections of short stories, picture books, a book on mythology and a book on writing. Recently her first collection of poetry, parallel, was published.

Her awards include the Highlights Fiction Award in the United States, and the Kathleen Grattan Prize for poetry in New Zealand. In 2012 Jillian graduated with a Master of Creative Writing with Distinction.

Her latest book, A Way Home, a memoir of building a new life and a strawbale house in Central Otago, comes out in September 2016 with Potton and Burton

Jillian, who is a grandmother of eight, lives in the Ida Valley, Central Otago, New Zealand, where she looks out to the mountains. For more information about the author visit www.jilliansullivan.co.nz

Reviews

[Simon Sweetman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely, sensitive poems. A treasure.

[Jillian Sullivan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful poems. “A sensitively connected sequence … held me from beginning to end with its tender, understated sophistication.” Selina Tusitala Marsh