NZSA BEST FIRST BOOK OF POETRY 2009
Everything Talks - Sam Sampson
Auckland University Press, ISBN 978-1-86940-411-6, $24.99 pbk
If the poems in this collection by Sam Sampson are mysterious, they are also as true to immediate fact – informed by a particularly New Zealand nostalgia and sense of loss – as the poet can make them. In these poems of history and geography, of ships and sky, of flotsam and jetsam in an imaginary sea, many different voices may be heard . . . everything talks.
