A biting new collection by award-winning poet Anne Kennedy. In The Sea Walks into a Wall, the natural world around us hits back. The sea crashes its glass onto the bar. You watch from afar. You'd take it all back if you could. Everything. You'd go down there and you'd. And talks back too. If I'm fucked, you're coming with me. Sincerely, the stream. From rainy Ihumatao to London's Kew Gardens, in the face of seas and streams, ducks and dogs, black drops and bureaucracies, humans bumble through. Without distractions you'd rush through your life like chi through an empty room. You bump into a baby and that takes up eighteen years. Love fills the room like a maze. Intelligent, playful, witty, and innovative, these poems bite where it hurts.
Affectionate yet satirical, this sequence of poems focuses on a family of giants and, in particular, on a young giant woman and her efforts to conceal from her normally sized lover how tall she truly is. The witty verses are infused with warmth and transcend a reader's everyday reality and experiences. As disturbing and fabulous as a classic fairy tale, this gathering of work showcases the fanciful aspects of contemporary manners.
This unique collection both longs for and resists the North. In storytelling couplets, the title poem engages with a woman's past as she looks outward from the shores of the Hokianga harbor in New Zealand. Other poems also explore present and future, dislocation and migration, north and south, and Earth and paradise. Separate and various in tone and form, these narrative poems are a joy to read.
In May 1954, photographer Orlando Suero spent five days with John and Jacqueline Kennedy in their three-storey townhouse in Georgetown. In more than 20 photo sessions, he documented a typical week in the couple's life.
Celebrate the little hero in every child with this encouraging board book. Kids love to pretend they have super powers, "flying" around in capes. But parents and grandparents see all the ways their little one is heroic--learning and growing and trying so much every day. Vivid, comic-book-style artwork depicts various costumed super-kids while the lively text draws comparisons between the qualities of a superhero and the child's special qualities. Little heroes--and their adult "sidekicks"--will love Super You!
Everyday ailments have a way of sneaking up on us. Compact enough to fit in the glove compartment or handbag, The Portable Essential Oils is your take-anywhere guide to 250 of the most fundamental essential oil remedies anytime you need them. Having access to your essential oils when you need them is important, and also that essential oils are not a one-size-fits-all remedy. In The Portable Essential Oils, natural health expert Anne Kennedy offers ailment-specific essential oil therapies to address common health concerns—enabling you with safe, convenient ways to take your well-being into your own hands—including: 50 of the most versatile essential oils, including 7 must-haves for home or on-the-go 250 essential oils remedies for or everyday health issues Essential Oil remedies that are safe for use with children and at which ages Shopper's guide on which essential oils to buy, which to be wary of, and important questions to ask
Narrated by one of the funniest, wisest literary observers of all time this is a brilliant, charming and heartwarming novel about illicit love, sewing, blackouts and Belfast.
The?Ice?Shelf:?an?eco-comedyOn the eve of flying to Antarctica to take up an arts fellowship, thirty-something Janice, recently separated, has a long night of remembrance, regret and realisation as she goes about the city looking for a friend to take care of her fridge while she’s away. En route she discards section after section of her manuscript in the spirit of editing The Ice Shelf into a stronger, sleeker work of literature.The Ice Shelf is an electrifying allegory for the dangers of wasting love and other non-renewable resources.
Sing-song, Anne Kennedy's first book of poems, explores the strains of parenthood - its anxieties, fatigue and exasperation - the contemporary experience of women, and the redeeming power of love in the face of adversity. The poems' setting is the domestic life of a family of four, told from the mother's perspective. Moving house, the gruelling experience of a child's eczema, the pressures of a bi-cultural household, and encounters with healers of many kinds are some of the subjects of these poems.
While living her perfect life, Anne Kennedy came face-to-face with a grim reality: all four of her gifted, glorious children were drug- and alcohol-dependent. In the 1960s and 1970s, addiction's dark ages, she kept the skeletons in the closet. Now Kennedy breaks her silence about the "family illness," which flourished in a false suburban utopia and a justice system that criminalized addicts. She writes of the ultimate loss, her oldest daughter, and the healing roads that restored life for everyone else. Kennedy's story, written in short memoiric bursts, delivers two messages: someone precious is inside every addict and no family, anywhere, is perfect.
How is that Bible reading plan working out for you? That's okay, everyone gets stuck. Just ask Jael, or worse, Jonah. This book is meant to "unstick" you. You'll meet angry and worn out people who--like you--desperately needed God. You'll see how God seeks out his people in spite of themselves. You'll discover again that the Bible is worth every moment you devote to it. With a devotional reading for each day of the year, this book will guide you through the Bible--the whole blessed thing--helping you turn your eyes towards Jesus with every step. And who knows? You may end up reading past Leviticus this time.
The newest edition of Diagnostic Imaging: Obstetrics provides radiologists with world-class content and instructions on the latest methodologies in this rapidly changing field. Featuring approximately 260 diagnoses highlighting the most recent information, references, and images, this title serves as a practical, highly formatted guide that's well suited for today's busy radiologists. Enhanced chapters on embryology, new reference tables, updated patient management guidelines, and much more ensure readers are current with the knowledge required for competent clinical practice. Guides practitioners through the intricacies of obstetric and pregnancy-related anomalies Features expanded embryology chapters delineating normal developmental anatomy An increased number of reference tables enables you to look up a normal measurement Includes new practice guidelines for patient management, a summary of consensus panels, and new standardized nomenclature Expanded syndrome section is rich in clinical pictures Brand new differential diagnoses section allows you to look up a finding and be guided to the correct diagnosis (e.g., absent cavum septi pellucidi) Richly colored graphics and fully annotated images highlight the most important diagnostic possibilities Highly templated and bulleted format makes it easier than ever to locate key information
Innovations that bring value propositions through new processes, resources, or technologies to practice. How are we changing outcomes through new innovations in practice? The articles in this issue will provide nurses with the information they need to improve patient outcomes. Articles are devoted to skin cancer screening in the medically underserved, innovative practices for risk assessment and documentation in preventative colon screenings, evidenced-based protocol for diagnosis and treatment of catheter associated urinary tract infection within adult neurocritical care patient population, changing the focus to the PATIENT plan of care, and a nursing focus on EMR usability enhancing documentation of patient outcomes.
Novel in which the china prince and his alter egos, in the role of jongleurs, invent their own lives to escape the tedium of their reality; or perhaps it is the other way round. Along the way the reader encounters the 12th-century mystic St Hildegard, Mozart, Beethoven, Bartok, Arthur Rubinstein and a clutch of Auckland housewives. The author's experimental novella T100 Traditional Smiles' (1988) was shortlisted for the 1989 New Zealand Book Awards.
After a car accident, pop star Hunter Kennedy hides out in a small town in Colorado, resting and attending high school in disguise. But when sweet Vere Roth, who's been assigned to make him over into a geek, asks for guy advice -- Hunter can't resign himself to the friend zone any longer.
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