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Helen HeathHelen Heath

Helen Heath is the author of Are Friends Electric?, her second collection of verse, published in June 2018 by Victoria University Press. Her first book, Graft, won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book for Poetry Award in 2013. She holds a PhD in creative writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters. Helen was born in Lower Hutt in 1970.

The Wednesday Poem: Kismet by Helen Heath

29 July 201915 May 2019 by Helen Heath

A poem from Ockham prize-winning poet Helen Heath. Helen Heath’s second collection of poetry, Are Friends Electric?, took out the top poetry prize – now sponsored by Peter and Mary Biggs – last night at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Are Friends Electric? is a work that explores questions of life and death and … Read more

Categories Books, Featured Tags Ashleigh Young, Helen Heath, Ockhams

The Friday Poem: ‘That’s it’ by Helen Heath

10 August 2018 by Helen Heath

New verse by Wellington writer Helen Heath.   That’s it   We kiss goodbye in the morning – a peck on the cheek and that’s it. Then the phone call, like a bad movie. The next time I kiss you goodbye you are cold and still, and that’s it. Afterwards it’s mostly paperwork – the … Read more

Categories Books, Featured Tags The Friday Poem, The Spinoff Review of Poetry

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