What I’m Reading: “Tumble” by Joanna Preston

Tumble by Joanna Preston is the third and final What I’m Reading post on books that I’ve heralded in previous months.

Tumble (Otago University Press, 2021) is Joanna Preston’s second poetry collection, and won the Ockham NZ Book Awards’ Peter and Mary Biggs Award for Poetry earlier this year.

In terms of disclosure, Joanna and I were in a poetry group together for a number of years. During that time, several of the poems contained in Tumble were shared and workshopped with the group. As noted i...