Just Arrived: “Gleam” by Sarah Broom

I am absolutely delighted to have just received a copy of Sarah Broom’s newly released and long awaited second book of poetry, Gleam, from Auckland University Press.

Sadly, Sarah Broom died on 18 April this year, before Gleam was published; my tribute to her is here. I also featured a poem from her first collection, Tigers At Awhitu, on the Tuesday Poem hub on 18 December last year: All my life.

As I said in my tribute, for me Tigers at Awhitu was one of the outstanding poetry collections of 20...