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Aleksandra Lane is no fly-by-night writer in exile, though: while vividly remembering where they’ve come from, her words are busy putting down roots and tasting the soil on this side of the planet.  They occupy the bittersweet zone between crossfire and desire, and have their sights trained on the moments when passion and compassion fall short of their target. Poignant and fierce, these are poems that surprise at every turn. – CHRIS PRICE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBirds of Clay\u003c\/em\u003e is Aleksandra Lane’'s first book in English, after two published in Serbian. Aleks moved to New Zealand in 1996, and completed her MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University’'s Institute of Modern Letters in 2010, receiving the Biggs Poetry Prize. Her poems have been published in \u003cem\u003eJacket2, Sport, Turbine, Takahe, Snorkel, Side Stream\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSwamp\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives in Wellington and is studying for a PhD in English at Massey University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Lane’s themes, from a lesser poet, would have been a prime target for cliché: war, family, intimacy and its failures, cultural fragmentation, memory. Instead, showing the intellectual maturity of a poet with two published books (in her native Serbian), a startling freshness of language and a gaze untainted by sentimentality, she turns her material into pure gold.' - NZ Listener\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a sharp and skilfully crafted collection. There is a rich smorgasbord of form in here: a clever villanelle (‘Knife’); a sparkling constellation of concrete poems (‘Another Legendary Sky’); prose poems (‘dead Pixel’); list poems (‘Unabridged’); found poems (‘There Are No Ghosts in America’). Lane knows what she is doing, but does it with a light hand, making nothing feel mannered or contrived. 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