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Ian Wedde

Ian Wedde

About Ian Wedde

Ian Wedde is New Zealand’s current poet laureate. ‘The Lifeguard’ is a sequence that will be included in a new collection with that name, to be published in 2013. The National Library of New Zealand maintains a laureate site.



Website:
http://nzpoetlaureate.natlib.govt.nz

NZ 6-Seater: A Chapbook Curated by Ian Wedde

Contents: Floating Ribs by Selina Tusitala Marsh Flood Monologue by Anne Kennedy experiments (our life together) by Michele Leggott Conversation with My Uncle by Murray Edmond from ‘High Lonesome by John Newton I Spilled My Story by Sam Sampson Invited …

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The Lifeguard, part 7

A buzzing in the ears as if bees were swarming in my thoughts or as if my head had become a clearing in the forest filled with the never-too-late serenades of cicadas at summer’s end makes me long for the …

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