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Pages for the Stage

by

Amelia Herrero-Kidman

Amelia Herrero-Kidman, 21, writes with a contemporary urban voice, city wise and street wise, full of knowledge about how the other side lives in flats and Wellington's older houses and suburbs.

The poems, her first published collection, are full of energy and power, raging through Newtown's cafes and bars and the city's pub gigs. The influences of the Beat generation that have preoccupied her all her writing life are evident in the steady rhythms of the work. Dreams and nightmares follow the writer and those she writes about. Her vision of the world is surprising, raw and often painful in its honesty.

TITLE               Pages for the Stage
AUTHOR         Amelia Herrero-Kidman
PUBLISHED    2004
CATEGORY    Poetry
FORMAT         Paperback
EXTENT           A5, 46 pages
ISBN                1-86942-045-4
PRICE              NZ $5

DREAMS OF OPIUM

Dreams of opium
In the morning and the evening
And they bury their truth
As they bury their dead

The Joyful Mysteries
Killing themselves in the small hours

The Sorrowful Mysteries
Night after night,
Without cease or rest

The Glorious Mysteries
The gathering dawn

But
Know this
When you come
And tap on the glass
Of the crooked windows

The boy with the
Perfect goth complexion
Who opens it wide
May this time or maybe
The next
End your silence, consolation,
Fantastic extravagance,

Sleep - My bane.

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