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Time of the Giants

Kennedy, Anne

Another original, delightful, moving book of poems from Wellington-born poet Anne Kennedy, whose sequence Sing-song won the Poetry Category in the 2004 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Time of the Giants, another sequence, is much less tied to the poet's own experience. Wonderfully inventive and both disturbing and amusing, it focuses on a family of giants and in particular a young woman giant and her efforts to conceal from her lover (normal size) just how tall she really is. Characteristically this fabulous tale also includes gentle satire on contemporary manners, witty language play and a warm and affectionate tone. Finalist in the Poetry category of the prestigious Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2006.

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