Book launch: Night as Day, by Nikki-Lee Birdsey
The PhD Creative Writing candidate's first poetry collection is forthcoming from VUP in April.
Victoria University Press will launch the first collection by poet and IIML PhD candidate Nikki-Lee Birdsey.
Night as Day describes a New Zealand that is overlapped by the United States and the challenges and almost-joys of navigating between these places, identities and homecomings. Balancing artistic experimentation with frank expression, these poems are mesmerising in their intelligence and beauty.
Nikki-Lee holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a BA from New York University. Her poems have been published in various journals including The Iowa Review, Fence, LIT, The Volta and Hazlitt. In 2015 she was a visiting faculty fellow at Victoria's International Institute of Modern Letters, where she is currently a PhD candidate.
The book will be launched by the poet and novelist Anna Smaill. All welcome. Copies will be available at the launch ($25).