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Paperback, 140 x 210mm
80 pages
Published 2008
Finalist in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2009 Best First Book Award
Praise for The Propaganda Poster Girl
‘What emerges from this collection, without ever leaning on the familiar modes of confession, is a compelling self-portrait. Where other young poets might have found only feelings, Amy Brown finds images and scenes to carry the burden of disclosure. Rather than endless interiors, there’s a palpable, recognisable world in the work. This is a thoughtful, mature and provocative collection.’
—Damien Wilkins
‘… an altogether impressive and distinctive debut collection of poems. Always supremely polished whenever I’ve heard them aloud, Brown’s poems seem even more measured and certain now they’re gathered together on the page.’
—Lumière Reader
Amy Brown was born in 1984 and grew up in Hastings before moving to Wellington to study English literature and philosophy at Victoria University. She taught English and travelled for six months in South East Asia in 2005, and has subsequently completed an MA in creative writing, for which she won the Biggs Prize for Poetry, and a first class honours degree in English literature. She was books and creative writing editor of online arts journal The Lumière Reader, and is occasional book reviewer for the NZ Listener. Her poetry has been published in Sport, Turbine, Snorkel, the Listener, Landfall and Hue & Cry. Her first collection of poetry The Propaganda Poster Girl was published by VUP in 2008. It was shortlisted for the Montana New Zealand Book Awards in the best first book of poetry category.
