Because a Woman's Heart is Like a Needle at the Bottom of the Ocean

by Sugar Magnolia Wilson

Overview

This is a first collection from a significant new voice in New Zealand poetry. Through fun and gore, love and monsters, Sugar Magnolia Wilson's riveting first collection takes readers inside a world where past and present, fiction and fact, author and subject collide. Playful and yet not so sunny, these poems invite you in with extravagant and surprising imagery, only to reveal the uneasy, Frankenstein world within.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781776710317
Publisher:	Auckland University Press
Publication date:	03/15/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	88
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Sugar Magnolia Wilson completed her MA in creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington. Her work has been published in the literary journals Turbine, Shenandoah, Cordite, Food Court, Landfall, and Sport.

Table of Contents

Dear sister 1

Anne Boleyn 11

The monster 14

Betty as a boy 16

Newton Gully mix tape 18

Conversation with my boyfriend 20

Bathhouse night chat 22

Home Alone 2 (with you) 24

Full moon celebrations 26

Heat wave 28

Snow chart 29

The moon and my 'house': A review of Haruki Murakami's novel, 1Q84 30

Pup art 31

Final 80s exposé 33

Glamour 35

Moon-baller 37

Spent 38

Gingerly 40

Spirit-liver 41

Cabin 43

Because a woman's heart is like a needle at the bottom of the ocean 44

Crane fly 45

Mother 46

The lake has a long memory 47

Muddy heart 48

Town 49

Bone tired 50

The sleep of trees 53

Dear X 56

Pen pal 58

Notes 81

Acknowledgements 82