The debut collection from an exciting emerging poet searching deeply the gothic soul of Aotearoa. Stricken by grief and chronic illness in a breakneck world that refuses to wait, the speaker in survival mode can contemplate colonial history and the heritage of the land with nuance and care.

Jasmine Gallagher is a poet, essayist, art critic and doctoral candidate at the University of Otago, where she is researching landscape mythology in contemporary New Zealand art and poetry.