… exclusivity dwells in habitat
adaptable from desert to compass rose, the inherent nature of construction. Cubist
images: violins and guitars analogous to costumes later designed as conforming to the
soul … there are several areas of debate, the capacity of a single imagination: emotion
for analysis and the claims of a photographer detailing colour with interest in the arc
of a possible cause (a likely cause which cannot leave a trace was omitted)
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/
