Jamie Hanton

Just started reading Wellington poet Geoff Cochrane’s second collection of poems, Into India . What I love most about Cochrane’s work is the utter lack of superfluousness. If he doesn’t need it, he doesn’t use it. Such precise language allows him to step into the darkness and float rather than sink under some self-absorbed malaise. [...]

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Dear Diary,
Last night I performed my poetry live for the first time (at the MCB with some of my classmates from the Hagley Writers’ Institute). It was over before it began really. I had the mic out and I gushed everywhere. Thoroughly unimpressive. It was over so quickly I didn’t even have time to let [...]

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