Overview
Wootton addresses subjects as various as the fraught relationship between medical institutions and individual suffering, the disintegration of the polar icecaps, the energizing power of solitude and the rewarding demands of creativity and love. This is a collection about give and take, loss and gain; about sowing, tending and reaping. Sue Wootton brings her characteristic linguistic dexterity, exuberance and versatility to every page. The Yield is rich harvest.Reviews
"Wootton makes the words shimmy with fresh metaphors, the unspoken, the sound of the everyday." —Paula Green, NZ Books Autumn 2009Author Biography
Sue Wootton has published five volumes of poetry and has received several awards, including the 2015 Caselburg Trust International Poetry Prize and second place in the 2013 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. She won the 2011 NZ Poetry Society International Poetry Competition and has twice won the Takahe Poetry Competition. Her first novel, Strip (Makaro Press, 2016), is longlisted for the fiction prize in the 2017 Ockham NZ Book Awards.