Tuesday & Poetry: Lines from “Leaving the Red Zone”

Last week, I reported on the extraordinarily successful launch of Leaving the Red Zone, the poetry anthology (edited by James Norcliffe and Joanna Preston, and published by Clerestory Press) that commemorates the fifth anniversary of the February 22, 2011, earthquake that devastated my home city of Christchurch.

The week since then has been frenetically busy so I haven’t had time to seek permission or obtain the text of full poems—or even, in fact, to take a proper look at the book. Even dipp...