Author(s): Diane Brown

NZ Fiction

Diane Brown combines a lyrical style with remarkable candour and an eye for the absurd: ironing boards left in strange places, possums falling out of trees, screams in the park, men who throw everything out the door and much more. Readers will recognise the dreams, dilemmas and domestic scenarios explored here. Learning to Lie Together is a collection of Diane Brown's recent poetry, dealing with relationships and with questions of time and place. In particular it deals with relocation from one city and island to another, and physically leaving one's teenage children at the same time as they are leaving the parent in an emotional sense.