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Posted: Wednesday Jun 26, 2024

Majella Cullinane’s Meantime

'Writing becomes a form of speaking, poetry a way of talking to and of and for her mother, and it is so very intimate, this maternal portrait, this daughter speaking. Mother missed and missing, perhaps too, daughter missed and missing. Fugitive memory. Necessary memory.'

'More than anything, Meantime is poetry at its most intimate, movingly so, and as readers we get to share in that intimacy. We might sidestep to our own trembling ground, our own losses and aches. We might pause to absorb a volley of grief and a shawl of comfort. I love this collection so much. I love its gentleness, its exposures, its pain and its healing. And above all, its love.'

Paula Green reviews and features Meantime by Majella Cullinane for NZ Poetry Shelf: Poetry Shelf feature: Majella Cullinane’s Meantime | NZ Poetry Shelf