The Companion To Volcanology

Description

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. 

Reviews

'Kininmont’s terrific second book has that sense of lived experience finding forms which release thought and feeling. I read it in one go as a kind of interrupted story.' —Damien Wilkins, Sunday Star-Times

'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

Author description

 Brent Kininmont is from Otautahi 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 Orongohau | Best New Zealand Poems. His first book of poetry was Thuds Underneath (2015).