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Common Land
Common Land

Common Land

POETRY

80 Pages, 5.5 x 8.25

Formats: Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $14.99 (US $14.99) (CA $14.99)

Publication Date: June 2013

ISBN 9780864737601

Rights: WOR X NZ

Te Herenga Waka University Press (Jun 2013)
Victoria University Press

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Overview

Through a complementary combination of prose and poetry, Lynn Davidson has crafted an emotionally charged narrative with an awareness for language, rhythm, and form. The three interconnected personal essays and two poems comprising the book share themes of personhood and relationships, often marked by loss—her mother’s Alzheimer’s and the disappearance of her son’s father—as well as a startling self-presence—childhood memories, the experience of pregnancy, and being a mother. Written with the authorial “I,” Common Land is a creatively crafted autobiography.

Reviews

“Common Land is possibly the most successful mix of poetry and prose I have read. Nothing is simply occasional, and everything fits together . . . the essays and poems circle, and shine lights on one another. Lynn Davidson has produced a deeply feeling and deeply rational book, a thoughtful book, where things are unusual and surprising, and yet necessary and true.”  —Elizabeth Knox, author, The Vintner’s Luck

“Common Land slinks into the room with  poems that sound true. The short essays  capture the intensity of feeling that owe a debt to her past. This book hangs together naturally leaving the reader free to enjoy the view as the ride progresses. This is another book full of energy and imagination.”  —Hamesh Wyatt, Otago Daily Times

Author Biography

Lynn Davidson is the author of the poetry collections How to Live by the Sea, Mary Shelley’s Window, and Tender and the novel Ghost Net. Her poetry has been published in The Best of Best New Zealand Poems, The Best of Sport Magazine, Big Weather: Poems of Wellington, and PN Review. She received the Louis Johnson Writer’s Bursary and in 2011 was a visiting artist at Massey University.