Mike Johnson Selected Poems

<p>A meaty and satisfying selection of the work of one of New Zealand's most preeminent and prolific poets tracing the development of his work from the seventies to today</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>'Johnson is one of New Zealand's most accomplished and inventive writers at one with the word its power its airy fitness and everyday solidities its resourcefulness its craft.'</p><p> </p><p>Siobhan Harvey Winner of the Kathleen Grattan poetry award 2019</p><p> </p><p>'The immense complexity of human relationships social sexual and everyday are at the heart of much of Mike's best poetry. However there's an almost equal pull towards the empyrean: the cosmic mysteries of nature and the visible world the beauty of the birds trees and beaches which surround him in his longtime home-base Waiheke Island.'</p><p> </p><p>Jack Ross editor of Poetry New Zealand (2014-2019)</p><p> </p><p>'[Johnson finds] just the right formulation to deliver a descriptive vitalism that is open alert tentative ambulatory elegant palpable.'</p><p> </p><p>David Eggleton Poet Laureate 2019-2022</p>