Anne KennedyAnne Kennedy

Anne Kennedy is a poet, novelist and screenplay editor. Her first book was the poetry collection 100 Traditional Smiles (1988). She has twice won the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry, for Sing-Song in 2004 and The Darling North in 2013. Her novel The Last Days of the National Costume (2013) was shortlisted for the New Zealand Post Book Award for Fiction in 2014. Anne's latest novel is The Ice Shelf (2018) and her latest poetry collection is Moth Hour (2019).

The Friday Poem: A poem from ‘Thirty-Three Transformations on a Theme of Philip’ by Anne Kennedy

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A poem by Ockham finalist Anne Kennedy.   from ‘Thirty-Three Transformations on a Theme of Philip’   32   The present pulls the plug on the present moment by moment Hands fly to the black tiles like pigeons to a rooftop The objects in the room join a passing train The thoughts in the room … Read more