Longisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards - Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry 2020

Edmond writes with a wry deliciousness in a pace from which one can't turn away - we stop in the heart and we can't stop anything in these forward cantering loops through fabled destiny. --Lisa Samuels, author of Foreign Native

Murray Edmond joins the rich tradition of late modernist folk poetry, which also includes Ed Dorn's Gunslinger and Tom Pickard's The Ballad of Jamie Allan. Wistful and riotous by turns, these two startling fables radiate with human warmth. They ring beautifully true. --Steven Toussaint, author of Lay Studies

Murray Edmond is known variously for his work as a poet, playwright and fiction writer, and as an editor, critic and dramaturge. His poetry collections LETTERS AND PARAGRAPHS, FOOL MOON and SHAGGY MAGPIE SONGS were finalists in the New Zealand book awards for poetry. Many of his poems have featured in journals and in anthologies. He has worked extensively in theatre as a writer, actor, director and dramaturge, notably for 20 years with Indian Ink's Jacob Rajan and Justin Lewis on the creation of all that company's scripts.