The Venetian Blind Poems
by Paula Green
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When you're Paula Green and the world contracts to tubes and veins, sound bites and zigzags of pain, when the effort to take the smallest sip of water is equivalent to walking up a mountain, when Venetian blinds dissect the horizon and all you love, then you open a room in your head and slowly write your way to comfort and delight. The poems that come offer glimpses into a life stripped bare by illness. When you return home, they make their way through the open window into the wider world, with its catastrophe and beauty. They deliver verve and stillness and heart. They daydream, they wonder, they travel.
Author: Paula Green
ISBN: 9781988595955
Publisher: The Cuba Press
Published: 14/07/2025
Format: Paperback / softback
About the Author
Paula Green is an award-winning poet, children's author, anthologist and blogger. She has published eight previous poetry collections for adults and three for children. Her most expansive non-fiction book, Wild Honey: Reading New Zealand Women's Poetry, appeared in 2019. She established and runs two blogs, NZ Poetry Shelf and NZ Poetry Box. In 2017 she was awarded the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in poetry and admitted to the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to poetry. In 2025 she was awarded the prestigious 2025 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award for her work and writing in children's literature.