My Bourgeois Apocalypse
$25.16
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
12 March 2026
Summary
I write not to communicate or reveal but to mull and conceal, but I guess that’s a form of communication too, of connection, of little anchors, little hooks, little holes you can put your eye up to, your heart up to, and maybe you will see something you will recognise.
In her new collection - a poetic collage-essay-memoir - Helen Rickerby crafts poems out of personal correspondence and sentences from her journals, cataloguing her life over a tumultuous period of lockdowns, terrorist a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781776712106 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1776712102 |
| Author: | Helen Rickerby |
| Publisher: | Auckland University Press |
| Imprint: | Auckland University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 12 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 18g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
‘This is a dazzling work, part notebook, part memoir, part puzzle. The reader might feel played like a fish, lured in with a line that seems to be leading to a scene, or a situation, only to find themselves disoriented by a change of pronoun, a detail out of place, a movement in time. Before long it becomes apparent that the sentences do not quite read consecutively, but by now the reader is hooked by the text’s strange rhythms, narrative threads and depths of passionate feeling.’
– Anna JacksonHelen Rickerby
Helen Rickerby lives in a cliff-top tower in Aro Valley, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. She has previously published four and a half collections of poetry, including How to Live (Auckland University Press, 2019), which won the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Rickerby single-handedly ran Seraph Press, a boutique but significant publisher of New Zealand poetry, and was co-managing editor of literary journal JAAM from 2005 to 2015. She earns a crust as an editor and technical writer.
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