Dear Tombs, Dear Horizon by Anna Jackson

Dear Tombs, Dear Horizon
by Anna Jackson

I was walking along the concreted pathway
around the coast and stepping down
for a grassy lunch when I saw on the rocks
someone had painted “You are my most
lovely horizon,” something no one has ever
said to me. Dear Horizon, you are both
the limit and beyond, the line
and the light, and because you will never
reach these rocks where I saw this
message I will put it in a poem to sail
it out to you, a glassy launch.

In 2016, while the Katherine Mansfield Fellow in Menton, France, Anna Jackson began recording some of her thoughts and impressions in a notebook. Over the three months of her tenure this grew into a lively and charming poetic essay, which weaves her own experiences with her engagement with other writers and texts, including her predecessor Katherine Mansfield. Full of insights and surprises.

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About the author

Anna Jackson lectures in English literature at Victoria University of Wellington, and has published six full collections of poetry as well as many academic books, articles, and edited collections. In 2016 she held the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship in Menton, France. Pasture and Flock: New and Selected Poems will be published by Auckland University Press in 2018.

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Title: Dear Tombs, Dear Horizon
Author: Anna Jackson
Category: Poetry
ISBN: 978-0-9941345-7-8
Format: Paperback, 210 mm (tall) x 148 mm (wide), 24 pages
RRP: $20
Publication Date: October 2017

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