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Dinah Hawken is one of New Zealand's most celebrated poets. She was born in Hawera in 1943 and now lives in Paekakariki. Sea-light is her ninth collection of poetry.

In this dazzling first collection, acclaimed Wellington poet and Canterbury farm-girl Rebecca Hawkes takes a generous bite from the excesses of earthly flesh - first 'Meat', then 'Lovers'. 'Meat' is a coming of age in which pony clubs, orphaned lambs and dairy-shed delirium are infused with playful menace and queer longings. Between bottle-fed care and killing-shed floors, the farm is a heady setting for love and death. In 'Lovers', the poet casts a wry eye over romance, from youthful sapphic infatuation to seething beastliness. Sentimental intensity is anchored by an introspective comic streak, in which 'the stars are watching us / and boy howdy are they judgemental'. This collection of queasy hungers offers a feast of explosive mince & cheese pies, accusatory crackling, lab-grown meat and beetroot tempeh burger patties, all washed down with bloody milk or apple-mush moonshine. It teems with sensuous life, from domesticated beasts to the undulating mysteries of eels, as Hawkes explores uneasy relationships with our animals and with each other. Tender and brutal, seductive and repulsive, Meat Lovers introduces a compelling new mode of hardcore pastoral.

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Bel Hawkins (Author) Bel is a published poet and writer, and the voice of one of the most beloved spaces in the SYSCA universe. She's won leading awards in both advertising and media, and spent the majority of her 20s living around the world, working on projects that speak directly to worn-out women, helping people phoenix and making them feel less alone in the world.

Nicole (Ngati Kahungunu ki te Wairoa, Ngati Pahauwera) is a novice writer, avid home-baker and proud aunt. She lives in Poneke and works at a local high school teaching English, Social Studies and tikanga Maori. Nicole is also involved in pastoral care and facilitates Kapa Haka. Nicole has collaborated with other writers to host 'Coffee with Brownies', which are open mic events for people of colour to share their work in safe spaces. She co-hosted 'Rhyme Time', a regional youth event, with Poetry in Motion, to encourage a diverse range of youth to perform their incredible poetry. Nicole has work published by Overland, Capital Magazine, Blackmail Press and The Spinoff Atea and credits her courageous students with inspiring her to write.

Bestselling NZ author Danielle Hawkins lives on a sheep and beef farm near Otorohanga with her husband and two children. She works part-time as a large animal vet, and writes when the kids are at school and she's not required for farming purposes. She is a keen gardener, an intermittently keen cook and an avid reader. Her other talents include memorising poetry, making bread and zapping flies with an electric fly swat. She tends to exaggerate to improve a story, with the result that her husband believes almost nothing she says.  Look for @DanielleHawkinsauthor on Facebook.

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Michael Hawton is a registered psychologist and former school teacher, and has worked in the area of child and family psychology for over 30 years. He has published two previous books on child behaviour management and brings a clear, no-nonsense approach to managing anxiety in children and tweens. 

Michael Hawton is a registered psychologist and former school teacher, and has worked in the area of child and family psychology for over 30 years. He has published two previous books on child behaviour management and brings a clear, no-nonsense approach to managing anxiety in children and tweens.