
About the event
We're honored to host the launch of Dame Fiona Kidman's new poetry collection, The Midnight Plane: Selected and new poems, published by Otago University Press.
Here it comes swooping
against the stars, perfectly poised
above the unruly winds …
from ‘The Midnight Plane’
In The Midnight Plane, Dame Fiona Kidman, one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most distinguished writers, returns to her first and deepest literary love, poetry. This beautifully curated volume opens with selected work from Kidman’s six previous collections, chronologically ordered, and concludes in the present day with a body of exciting new poems.
Harriet Allan will launch the book.
All welcome!
Thursday May 29th, 6pm
in-store at Unity Books Wellington
Book Launch: The Midnight Plane: Selected and new poems by Dame Fiona Kidman
All welcome!
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