Ruth Hanover

OTHER by Ruth Hanover

A mother and child inhabit the psychological space between the mainland and Nauru. A young man enters his own culture through the close reading of another. The Levant is apparent in Paris, generations late. A re-formed underground functions where passports can not, and the trains leave, from Austerlitz.

These poems follow refugees, seekers of asylum, and the response to them—dismissive, violent, or expressed in the smallest act of magnanimity.

The power to choose and the practice of choice runs throughout. It remains to be seen if we might yet follow Aristotle and 'cultivate humanity' or get to the end, witness to a state of disgrace.

Genre:

  • Adult Fiction
  • Poetry
  • Short Stories

Skills:

Branch:

Canterbury

Location:

Christchurch

Publications:

OTHER

A chapbook of seventeen poems Other by Ruth Hanover, Cold Hub Press, was launched in March 2019.

Immense thanks to Roger Hicken, editor, Siobhan Harvey (NZSA/Pen Complete Manuscript Assessment reader) and others acknowledged in the book.

Ruth Hanover's poetry can be also be found in the following journals and anthologies; Poetry New Zealand, 2019, the New Zealand Poetry Society anthologies,  Manifesto: 101 Political Poems, Otago University Press, 2017, London Grip, and tãkahe. 

ISBN 978-0-473-47134-7

Aiko

The Tent, takahe 91, Takahe Poetry Prize, 2017.

The Oranges, Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, 2019, Edited by Jack Ross

The Intersectionality of Race & Rape, Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, 2021, Edited by Tracey Slaughter

Frost Cloth, Landfall 244, Edited by Lynley Edmeades 

Short fiction, Aiko, takahe 64

Talking about Rape, in Manifesto Aotearoa: 101 Political Poems, Otago University Press, 2017, Edited by Philip Temple & Emma Neale

The New Zealand Poetry Society anthologies; Let me tell you (3rd place), At the back of the corner dairy, in Penguin Days, Edited by Laurice Gilbert, 2016, and While the book group, and Locale in The Unnecessary Invention of Punctuation, 2018, Edited by Gail Ingram, and As her popularity declines, dedicated to Angela Merkel, in The Perfect Weight of Blankets, 2019, Edited by Raewyn Alexander, Force Taken in Direct Translation, in Kissing a Ghost, NZPS Anthology, Edited by Tim Jones, 2021 (placed 2nd)

Latke, in A Fine Line