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Zora Patrick is a Year 12 student of Wellington High School. She won first place in the 2017 International Institute of Modern Letters’ (IIML) National Schools Poetry Award, and was awarded $500. Zora was born in the US in 2001.

The Friday Poem: ‘Dampening’ by Zora Patrick

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We conclude our week-long series on New Zealand poetry with the winning poem of the 2017 national schools poetry award: ‘Dampening’, by Wellington High School Year 12 student Zora Patrick.     Dampening Playing dead in the seeming shallows a man floats face down estranged from the crying children and bikini grandmas.   He looks … Read more