Discover the remarkable poetry collection, *To The Occupant*, by acclaimed New Zealand author Emma Neale. This brand new paperback book, measuring 150 x 230 mm and containing 80 pages, transforms the mundane into exquisite art, captivating readers with its insightful exploration of contemporary life. Emma Neale’s poems strike a delicate balance between the profound and the everyday, challenging societal norms and confronting issues such as social inequality, mental illness, and the haunting specter of historical trauma. Each poem showcases her unmatched ability to weave dynamic language and striking imagery, ensuring that the emotional depth resonates deeply with each reader.

This innovative collection defies expectations with whimsical typographical experiments and engaging prose poems, while also reinventing classic fables and offering light-hearted satire. *To The Occupant* not only encapsulates the complexity of human experience but also celebrates the beauty found in the ordinary. So whether you are a poetry enthusiast or a novice, this collection promises a transformative experience that invites reflection on the world around us.

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CONDITION: Brand New
Dimensions: 150 x 230 mm
Pages: 80
Bind: paperback
Author: Emma Neale Publisher: Otago University Press


To the Occupant takes the everyday and transforms it into something fine and precious and enduring. With an unsparing attention, Emma Neale creates shape-shifting poems that confound prejudices and subvert expectations. Displaying verve and confidence, her poetry is filled with musicality and dynamic language, always observant to the world and its details. The striking imagery and emotional range of her work never veer into sentimentality. These poems engage with the full spectrum of human emotion and experience, the hauntings of history, the cold hand of social inequality, and the long contrail of intimate cruelties. They challenge the open and latent violence of contemporary life, from refugee crises to rape, poverty and mental illness to climate change, while revealing the extraordinary in the everyday, where a child’s-eye view of the world can witness the wonder of the new or the shadow of darkness. Whimiscal typographical experiments and prose poems sit next to reimagined fables (the Big Bad Wolf repurposed as inner demon), deliciously light-handed satire, and quietly powerful insights into the contemporary political terrain. To the Occupant is an innovative and astounding collection from one of New Zealand’s leading writers of her generation.

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