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Sing-song Kennedy, Anne This is an extraordinary and unusual sequence of poems. It is Anne Kennedy's first book of poems but her prose work has often verged in that direction. The poems deal with the domestic life of a family, and in particular the grueling experience of eczema which a little girl suffers. By telling it from the mother's point of view and setting it in amidst moving house, the pressures on a bicultural household, endless fruitless encounters with 'healers' of many kinds, Kennedy makes it into a moving and profoundly recognisable picture of the strains of parenthood - its anxieties, fatigue, desperation - the contemporary situation of women and the power of love under harsh circumstances. Finalist for the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2004 Poetry category. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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