The Sea Walks Into a Wall

Anne Kennedy is the author of three novels, a novella, four books of poetry, and many anthologised short stories. Her first book of poetry Sing-song was named Poetry Book of the Year at the 2004 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. The Darling North won the 2013 New Zealand Post Book Award for Poetry, and Moth Hour was a poetry finalist at the 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Anne has also won the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Short Story Award and has held fellowships at the University of Auckland, the IIML, and at the University of at Hawai'i. She has taught creative writing for a number of years in Hawai'i and Auckland.

Tackling some challenging premises along the way, Kennedy is consistently insightful, witty, outright funny, and beautiful. — Chris Reed