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The Companion to Volcanology is not a field guide to volcanoes. But tectonic shifts are present in Brent Kininmont’s second book of poetry, and so are companions. The child, for instance, carried up a mountain in the titular opening poem, and companions alive to the brevity of their time together.
Kininmont, who grew up in Aotearoa, has lived in Japan for many years, and so these poems are of a life between two places and of the body in anxious or joyful motion.
Praise for Thuds Underneath
‘Luminous, surprising, inventive, original.’ —Paula Green, NZ Poetry Shelf
‘Thuds Underneath is amazing. . . . His poems are like riddles, full of linguistic play.’ —Gregory O'Brien, RNZ
Brent Kininmont is from Ōtautahi Christchurch and now lives in Tokyo. A former journalist, he leads seminars in intercultural communication. He has an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters, and his poems have appeared widely in Aotearoa, including in three editions of Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems. His first book of poetry was Thuds Underneath (2015).
Cover art: Derek Mitchell, Anatomical Landscape IV, collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū; William A. Sutton bequest, 2000
