5.30pm on Thursday 25th February
The Old Dining Hall
St. Edmund's Hall
Queen's Lane
Oxford


Sarah Broom - Tigers at Awhitu
With introductions by Bernard O'Donoghue and Pat Palmer

It's hard to believe that such a mature and fully-fledged collection is also the author's first. A book for our times; specifically a woman's, and more specifically, a mother's book, it is 'about time that wears / as ragged as storm-blown wings'. Poems of deep poignancy and unflinching tenderness are presented against a backdrop of encroaching tidescape in which a fierce beauty burns all the more brightly, the more it is threatened. - Medbh McGuckian

Sarah Broom lives in Auckland with her partner and three children.  She returned to New Zealand in 2000 after spending seven years in the UK, studying and working in Leeds and Oxford.  She is the author of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). Tigers at Awhitu is her first collection of poems.