Hauled Headfirst into a Leviathan by Iain Britton

This long awaited first collection from one of New Zealand’s finest writers reveals Iain Britton as a poet with a remarkable and distinctive voice. The observations are piercingly accurate, the images are visceral and lucid and the crafting impeccable. With a lightness of touch, ‘The air is packed with the stirred-up orbits of people’s faces’ (Ourselves in Wood) and we enter other lives not as mere voyeurs, but as participants.”

Iain Britton is a New Zealand poet and director of Maori Studies at King’s School, Remuera. He is widely published in UK and international magazines such as Blackbox Manifold, Nthposition, Ouroboros Review, Stride, Shadowtrain, Horizon Review, Great Works, Spine Writers, Streetcake Magazine, Litter Magazine (UK), Harvard Review, Drunken Boat, Free Verse, Scythe Literary Magazine, Slope, The Hamilton Stone Review, BlazeVOX (US) Jacket, Otoliths, Snorkel, foam:e, Cordite (Aust).  His poetry collections include, Hauled Head First into a Leviathan (Cinnamon Press), Liquefaction (Interactive Press, Australia) and Cravings (Oystercatcher Press). His first NZ collection will be coming out in 2011.

Iain’s website.