Snow White's Coffin

Overview

In this new collection of poetry from Kate Camp, written during a writer’s residency in Berlin, she grapples with being away from her homeland, offering readers sharp, lyrical stories and philosophical adventures in a foreign land. More than comprising a mere travelogue, however, the poems are dense and full of bright explosions of meaning as they navigate the world of art and literature as well as the physical world.

Author Biography

Kate Camp is the author of the poetry collections Beauty Sleep, The Mirror of Annihilated Souls, which won a New Zealand Post Book Award as the best book of poetry, Realia, and Unfamiliar Legends, which won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry at the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Her work has also appeared in magazines and journals such as Landfall, NZ Listener, and Heat, and in anthologies such as The Best of Best New Zealand Poems and Best NZ Poems.