Author(s): HUTCHINSON, JAN

Poetry | Educational Resources

We have no poet quite like Jan Hutchison - a nature poet of course, but so much more than this: her imaginative leaps are startling; her mind ever quizzical, puzzling at what is just beyond perception. Her voice, too, is utterly original, relishing the magic of names, of forgotten words, the beauty of Maori lore and language, of incantatory neologisms, of locating the music in words and making words sing. She can range from the playfulness of Springing Grasses and The Cricket to the elegiac wistfulness of Poem for Hinekura and Among Spoonbills and everything in between. Kinds of Hunger is a rich and deeply rewarding collection. a a - James Norcliffe