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Helen RickerbyHelen Rickerby

Helen Rickerby's most recent poetry collection is How to Live (Auckland University Press, 2019), which won the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry in the 2020 Ockham NZ Book Awards. She single-handedly runs the boutique Seraph Press, works as an editor and lives in Aro Valley, Wellington.

The Friday Poem: How to die by Helen Rickerby

8 May 2020 by Helen Rickerby

A poem by Ockham finalist Helen Rickerby. How to die   From here there is nowhere else to go only a question of the journey, the route and the hope of meandering through a few more summers   We say we don’t want suffering but often given a chance, we will choose it It all … Read more

Categories Books Tags 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, Helen Rickerby, NZ Literature, The Friday Poem

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