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fluid

       by Karen Peterson Butterworth
        (Number 6 in the ESAW Mini series)

Karen Peterson Butterworth was born in Catlins, South Otago in 1934 and now lives in Otaki. Winner of the BNZ/Katherine Mansfield Essay Prize, she has been placed many times in poetry competitions. She has had short fiction, poetry, articles and columns published in journals and anthologies in New Zealand and overseas, and published one poetry and two non-fiction books.

A brief explanation of haiku

Haiku is a short poem, usually of three lines and fewer than eighteen syllables, which describes a keenly felt moment in time without comment or judgment. This brevity and simplicity allows readers maximum space to link the writer’s haiku moment to their own experience and become collaborators in the poem’s creation.

TITLE               fluid
AUTHOR         Karen Peterson Buterworth
PUBLISHED    July 2006
CATEGORY    Poetry - No 6 in the ESAW mini series
FORMAT         Paperback
EXTENT           24 pages A6
ISBN                1-86942-068-3
PRICE              NZ  $5

Reviews

Karen Peterson Butterworth's fluid is something else again, lending itself more readily to abstraction than in concrete images and terms. The poems themselves are deft, diaphanous constructions. Each section of poems is interspersed with a section of seasonal haiku...
In those poems dealing with urban experience, Peterson Butterworth's focus intersects with our daily concerns, and displays a knowledge and intensity of feeling that is a privilege to experience. The generosity, and humour of the poems melds with their musicality; complements and complicates the readers own truths with each and every read.  Patricia Prime Takahe

Much the best poems in this collection are the haiku/senryu including the sequence “The Cataract Operation”. I can see the verbally lean “nothing” and “ “girls can do anything” appealing to many readers… the haiku are often vivid, wry or moving.    Bernard Gadd  a fine line (NZ Poetry Society)

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