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Kate CampKate Camp

Kate Camp is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently The Internet of Things (2017). Her many honours include winning the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writer's Residency. Her Selected Poems is forthcoming in 2020 with Victoria University Press and House of Anansi Press, Canada. Kate was born in Wellington in 1972.

The Friday Poem: How to Be Happy Though Human by Kate Camp

28 August 2020 by Kate Camp

A new poem by Kate Camp. How to Be Happy Though Human From the Circle there was a man we couldn’t see just his fingers held out for emphasis like the hands of a preacher or a primary school teacher.  Before that we had been at the film where three people taxidermied a baby zebra … Read more

Categories Books, Featured Tags Kate Camp, National Poetry Day 2020, New Zealand Literature, The Friday Poem

The Friday Poem: There is no easy way by Kate Camp

20 March 2020 by Kate Camp

A poem by Wellington writer Kate Camp.   There is no easy way   This is the way you will travel through the world on feet, on arrangements of bones and body parts.   You will be standing on top of your shoes. You will be walking inside the lining of your coat and your … Read more

Categories Books, Featured Tags New Zealand Literature, Self-isolation, The Friday Poem

The Friday Poem: ‘Welcome to your new sky’ by Kate Camp

7 October 2016 by Kate Camp

New verse by Wellington writer Kate Camp.   Welcome to your new sky It is impossible to build an unhackable computer. That’s why the US Navy is equipping its ships with sextants and teaching their crews to navigate by the stars. You can’t hack the stars. Yet. All in all though and on balance I … Read more

Categories Books, Featured Tags The Spinoff Review of Poetry

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