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Crumple
by Vivienne Plumb

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an appalling longing to see your face
has forced my thoughts to pack their own bags
and even as I speak,
they are filling out a destination card
and boarding a flight to meet you.


In Crumple Vivienne Plumb takes us on a series of journeys, both geographic and metaphoric.

These poems have itchy feet, wandering from Poland, to China, through Italy, Australia and home to New Zealand. But is New Zealand home, or where in New Zealand is home? We roam up and down the country, we get lost in Kiwi icons which swing between hyper-real familiarity and unsettling surrealism, we find ourselves again and again on a long-distance bus.

Our constant travelling companions are Plumb’s sharp observation, her quirky sense of humour, and her skill of skewering both the ridiculous and the miraculous in the everyday.

‘Best not to endure life / in the shallows, better to dive deep –’; Crumple is, in the end, a celebration of life and living.

About the author

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Vivienne Plumb, with a New Zealand mother and Australian father, has spent much of her life crossing the Tasman. She is one of literature’s all-rounders; as well as six previous collections of poetry, she has written and published plays, short fiction and a novel.

Vivienne has held many awards and residencies, including the Hubert Church Award for a first book of fiction, which she won for her collection The Wife Who Spoke Japanese in Her Sleep (1993), the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship and the University of Iowa International Writing Programme.

Not one to sit still, she is currently dividing her time between Auckland and Sydney, where she is completing a doctorate in creative arts.


Title: Crumple
Author: Vivienne Plumb
Category: Poetry
ISBN: 978-0-473-17717-1
Format: Paperback, 150 mm (wide) x 210 mm (tall), 84 pages
RRP:  $25
Publication Date:  November 2010


Also by Vivienne Plumb

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The Cheese and Onion Sandwich and other New Zealand Icons: Prose Poems
In this new collection of prose poems, award-winning writer Vivienne Plumb celebrates and satirises such New Zealand icons as ferry crossings, sly grogging, crockpots, whitebait, weather, gambling, tramping, motels and cheese and onion sandwiches. More...

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Scarab: A Poetic Documentary
During her son’s 10-year struggle with cancer, award-winning writer Vivienne Plumb recorded the journey in some of her best poems. Now collected together, with several new and previously unpublished poems, they tell a powerful story of love, sorrow and celebration. More...


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