What I’m Reading: “This City” by Jennifer Compton

Recently, I purchased a copy of This City (Otago University Press, 2010), the Kathleen Grattan Award-winning book of poetry by my fellow Tuesday Poet, Jennifer Compton.

And it is wonderful, dear readers.

I am blown away by the emotional depth and integrity of the poems, and the beauty of lines like:

“Like breathing out forever, we announce our imminent absence.”

and

“…The stink of success and their prowess evaporates,

diffuses like a mist, a heady, foxy, delicious, momentary thing.
They stand...