Rabbit Rabbit

by Kerrin P. Sharpe

In her third collection, Kerrin P. Sharpe writes about trespass and return, the homelessness of flight, and anatomies both human and object. Her poems take the form of oblique, sometimes tragic, always powerful vignettes. These are poems that are brilliantly restless in time and place.

Genres: Poetry

72 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2016

About the author

Kerrin P. Sharpe was born in Wellington but now lives in Christchurch where she is a poet and teacher of creative writing. She completed the Victoria University Original Composition programme taught by Bill Manhire in 1976 and has recently returned to writing as her family have grown up and left home.

Kerrin's poems have appeared in many journals, including Hue & Cry, JAAM, The Listener, Poetry NZ, Sport, Takahe, Turbine and the Press, in Best NZ Poems 08, 09 and 10, and in The Best of the Best New Zealand Poems. In 2008 she was awarded the New Zealand Post Creative Writing Teacher's Award from the Institute of Modern Letters. She is currently Writer-in-Residence at St Andrews College and teaches creative writing at the Hagley Writers' Institute.

Reviews

[Ivy · Rating 4 out of 5]

"The best poetry book I read this year would have to be Rabbit Rabbit by Kerrin P. Sharpe (Victoria University Press, 2016). I was blown away by the poet’s superb control of language, how she used the surreal to illuminate the world. It is saved from perfection by virtue of hitting the same note every time — but what a note. Though I am a comically slow reader of poetry, I swallowed this whole.

"She’s new to me, and I’m now a fan."