I have a number of poems
containing the known, the lowest, the hole in the middle. I manage to stop myself like
that. No not embarrassed. Finally to stop. Rest. Turn on the lights … the duration
beneath tense artifice: black : bulging, comprised of sea urchins (all which are whiter
if a bit starfish fades) …
Sam Sampson’s first book of poems,
Everything Talks, was published in 2008 by Auckland University Press (NZ) and Shearsman Books (UK). It won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry at the 2009 book awards. In June 2014, his second collection,
Halcyon Ghosts, appeared through Auckland University Press. On July 1, 2015, he recorded a series of eight poems for the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (nzepc), one of which was ‘Distant Trees’. Read a collection of galleries; from collaborative exhibitions, to readings, bookworks, and other projects on his site.
http://samsampson.co.nz/
