Root Leaf Flower Fruit
Published on 14. September 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
120 pages
978-1-77692-116-4 (ISBN)
Description
A poignant verse novel exploring family, memory, and the healing power of nature.
After a stroke leaves his grandmother helpless, a grandson returns to her rundown New Zealand farm to prepare it for sale. As he sifts through her belongings, he uncovers family secrets and confronts his own past traumas. The auction's unexpected outcome sends him on a journey of self-discovery, echoing his grandmother's earlier desperate flight.
Root Leaf Flower Fruit is a moving exploration of slow time, the turning seasons, and the enduring bonds of family. For readers who enjoy contemporary literature, verse novels, and stories of personal transformation set against the backdrop of rural life.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Zealand
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 221 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77692-116-4 (9781776921164)
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Bill Nelson
Root Leaf Flower Fruit
E-Book
04/2024
Victoria University Press
€11.99
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Bill Nelson's first book of poetry was Memorandum of Understanding (2016). His poems have appeared in Best New Zealand Poems, Sport, Landfall, Hue & Cry, Shenandoah, The Spinoff, Minarets and The 4th Floor, as well as in dance performances and art galleries and on posters. In 2009 he won the Biggs Family Prize in Poetry from the International Institute of Modern Letters, and he is a founding editor of Up Country: A Journal for the NZ Outdoors. He lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara with his partner and two children, and his dog, Callimachus Bruce.