Author(s): Courtney Sina Merdith

Poetry | Aotearoa

Rangatira, Queen of Beauty.

'Everyone thinks you dream in foreign prose.'

'Everyone stands in front of you like a mirror.'

"Courtney Sina Meredith has grown a distinctive voice. Her arrangements are formally inventive. She surprises in ways that writers ought to." -- Lloyd Jones. Mister Pip, Commonwealth Writer's Prize winner & Booker Prize nominee.

Burst Kisses on the Actual Wind is a tapestry of surprising and shifting  verse, focused on connection and displacement, the blurring between internal landscapes and longed for realities - we travel with the voice, invited into moments both cinematic and achingly tender.