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The Midnight Plane

Selected and new poems
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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... Read More
Format: Hardback
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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 features selected work from Kidman’s six previous collections, chronologically ordered, and concludes in the present day with a body of exciting new poems.

The Midnight Plane by distinguished New Zealand author, Dame Fiona Kidman, features selected and new poems from 1975–2025. With themes of human connection, relationships, loss, time and love, this elegant hardback collection of Kidman's poetry is a must-have. 

Fiona Kidman will be appearing at Auckland Writers Festival 2025 and Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival 2025.

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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. The Midnight Plane comes in to land exactly half a century after the 1975 publication of Kidman's debut book, the poetry collection Honey and Bitters. There's a sense in which The Midnight Plane works like an alternative memoir, offering a poet's immediacy of vision and gift of linguistic precision on a life unfolding in real time. From the first line to the last, The Midnight Plane speaks to human relationships, to connection and disconnection, to the mystery and the majesty of life, to seasons of loss and cycles of renewal. Each of these poems is, in its own way, a midnight plane, flying in the dark, navigating for home in sometimes perilous conditions. 'What I know,' writes Kidman in her generous preface to this landmark collection, 'is that poetry has the power to shake the heart'.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781991348005

Publisher: Otago University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 22 May 2025

Country: New Zealand

Imprint: Otago University Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 120.0mm

Height: 160.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 172

About the Author

Dame Fiona Kidman is a poet, fiction writer and memoirist. She has also written for the screen industry. Her internationally published work has won numerous prestigious literary awards, and her honours include a damehood (DCNZM), an OBE and the French Legion of Honour (La Légion d’Honneur). She lives on a cliff top in Wellington.

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