This Paper Boat

Name: This Paper Boat
Author: Gregory Kan, fl. 2013

written by Gregory Kan, fl. 2013 (Auckland, Auckland Region, 2016, originally published 2016), 84 page(s)

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Abstract / Summary: In these poems, rich in understatedly beautiful imagery, two authors, their families and their many ghosts navigate oceans, forests, gardens and houses in New Zealand, Singapore, China, and in dreams. This Paper Boat follows the author as he traces his own history through the lives and written fragments of Iris Wilkinson (aka Robin Hyde), of his parents and their parents. He explores old territories of Robin Hyde’s, still dripping with the past – the tide pool at Island Bay with its shrimp and driftwood, the garden at Laloma with its crushed lemon leaves. He listens to the stories of his parents and their parents, the eels and milk, frangipani trees, drains and barbed wire of their childhoods. He remembers a jungle of his own; he searches for ghosts in the water. While stumbling across irreparable fractures between worlds, the author uncovers the permission to have beautiful and imperfect plans.
Field of Interest: Literature
Author: Gregory Kan, fl. 2013
Content Type: Poetry
Duration: 0 sec
Format: Text
Sub Genre: Poetry
Original Publication Date: 2016
Page Count: 84
Publication Year: 2016
Place Published / Released: Auckland, Auckland Region
Subject: Literature, Literature & Language, Poetry, Poesía, Poesia
Keywords and Translated Subjects: Poesía, Poesia