Roll & Break
Author(s): Adrienne Jansen
What defines a place like Tītahi Bay? The rolling waves, the
turning tide, the crescent-cleft coast? It is the people. It is the stories handed down through generations. It is this
rugged beauty that links us to each other.
These are not your usual beach poems. An African refugee staggers from the ocean; Van Gogh is painting boatsheds; a violinist plays in a dinghy to an audience of gulls. Roll & Break is a collection full of surprises, and a celebration of the beaches at the heart of our Aotearoa life.
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- : Escalator Press
- : Escalator Press
- : 15 September 2022
- : books
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- : Adrienne Jansen
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Nina Mingya Powles: Roll & Break is a sharp, vivid portrait of a place. [...] Layers of history, culture, geography and environmental change all converge here; each poem is a kind of landing place, a turning towards home. Harry Ricketts: Roll & Break is the latest reminder of what a special poet Adrienne is. Siobhan Harvey: In this fourth collection, Adrienne returns to the water, its intensity, force, lure, liberation, hazard and worship. What results are dynamic poems which, like their seascapes, offer tranquillity, depth and undertow.
Adrienne Jansen writes poetry, fiction and non-fiction for adults and children. Roll & Break is her fourth collection of poetry. Keel & Drift was one of the New Zealand Herald’s best books for 2016, and All of Us (with carina gallegos) was longlisted for the 2019 Ockham New Zealand
Book Awards. She lives in Tītahi Bay, north of
Wellington.
