Every Now and Then I Have Another Child

by Diane Brown

Overview

A mysterious doppelgänger sister, a newborn baby, a boy in a mural, a detective, a former lover, a student stalker … are they real or imagined? Building on Diane Brown’s tradition of extended poetic narratives, Every Now and Then I Have Another Child is an inventive and heartfelt meditation on motherhood, the creative impulse and the blurred line between imagination and reality. This delightful, evocative poetic narrative wafts between the truly surreal and the ‘everyday’ absurd.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781988592404
Publisher:	Otago University Press
Publication date:	09/01/2020
Pages:	164
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Diane Brown is a novelist, memoirist, and poet who runs her own creative writing school, Creative Writing Dunedin. Her publications include two collections of poetry (Before the Divorce We Go to Disneyland and Learning to Lie Together), a novel (If the Tongue Fits), a verse novel (Eight Stages of Grace), a travel memoir (Liars and Lovers), a prose/poetic memoir (Here Comes Another Vital Moment) and a poetic family memoir (Taking My Mother to the Opera). In 2013 she was made a Member of New Zealand Order of Merit for services to writing and education.

Table of Contents

Prologue: This Is How It Is for All of Us 1

1 On the Edge 9

2 Floods of One Kind or Another 27

3 Up Not Down 43

4 Every Cloud a Story 63

5 Slippery Surfaces 81

6 Following a Trail 99

7 Getting to the Centre 115

8 And Found 131

9 Making Use of the Compost 149

Epilogue: Written on the Body 161

Acknowledgements 163