Author(s): K McKenzie Cooke

Poetry

Winner of Montana Best New Book for 2003

80 pages.
With a childhood in rural Southland behind her,Kay McKenzie Cooke blends town and country themes effortlessly>Her poetry expresses a strong relationship with the landscape and a southern sensibility, but she is equally at home writing about lawn bowlers in Queenstown,a family reunion,global warming,or the land.

The author was born in Tuatapere,of Kati Mamoe.Ngati Kahungunu,Cockney and Northern Irish ancestry.Her work has been published widely in New Zealand magazines.She lives in Dunedin