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Kate Camp's poetry has been described by readers as fearless, affable and 'containing a surprising radicalism and power'. In her new collection, she is ever alert to the stories unfolding all around us and inside our own bodies. As she is striding away from hope, she is also holding on tightly to the promise of morning. The poems move between distant planets and Chappies Dairy, between Mont-Saint-Michel and the lighthouse in Island Bay, with every moment, every feeling, every conviction on the edge of becoming another. Like the plumber who can hear water running deep underground, Makeshift Seasons is a book of extraordinarily sharp sensing and knowing.
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"'These magical, knotty works react to a fragile world, and Camp navigates the light along with the dark.'"
Paula Green
"'Each poem's like a bumper ride in a fairground, crashing into obstacles, at once jarring and exhilarating.'"
David Eggleton
"'Here is "the so-called outside world", and here is its wonderfully sensitive, fluently understated poet.'"
Stephanie Burt