Three Days in a Wishing Well

Overview

The debut collection from Christchurch poet Kerrin P. Sharpe is an extended imaginative exercise, where she invites the reader to experience life in the well containing dreams and desires, peering up as wishes are dropped into it. Her language is wistful and wishful and slightly surreal but offers a myriad of new perspectives, new views on life. Each poem is a treasure to be discovered, pondered, and live on in one’s mind.

Reviews

“Kerrin P. Sharpe's poems make me think of migratory birds. It's as if they have just settled very briefly on the page after long journeys from far-off places—from Europe, from Antarctica, from other centuries. My advice is that we read them quickly before they take flight again. Or, better, write them out in a notebook. Then bury the notebook in a metal box somewhere deep in the earth, where people in the future can dig for days until they find it.”  —Bill Manhire, inagural New Zealand Poet Laureate

Author Biography

Kerrin P. Sharpe is a poet who has been published in journals and anthologies that include Hue & Cry, Best New Zealand Poems, and The Best of Best New Zealand Poems. In 2008 she was awarded the New Zealand Post Creative Writing Teacher's Award from the Institute of Modern Letters, and she is a writer-in-residence at St Andrews College and teaches creative writing at the Hagley Writers' Institute.