Riemke Ensing

These intensely visual poems reveal the poet’s deep affinity for coastal locations such as Muriwai and Otago Harbour, and her profound response to the work of a number of artists and fellow writers, notably Charles Brasch, Colin McCahon, Kazu Nakagawa, Gerda Leenards, and Anna Caselberg. Others consider the migrant experience, ‘the trees in the forests of memories’, and the connotations...