In her first book, Nikki-Lee Birdsey takes readers from a remote sheep station in the South Island to the neon signs of Queens, from a hotel in Piha to a Walt Whitman Rest Area in New Jersey, from intimately known cities to remembered landscapes.
Night as Day describes a New Zealand that is overlapped by the United States and the challenges and almost-joys of navigating between these places, identities, and homecomings.
Balancing artistic experimentation with frank expression, these poems are mesmerising in their intelligence and beauty.
About the Author Nikki-Lee Birdsey was born in Piha.
She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a BA from New York University.
Her poems have been published in various journals including The Iowa Review, Fence, LIT, The Volta, and Hazlitt.
In 2015 she was a visiting faculty fellow at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington, where she is currently a Ph D candidate.
Victoria University Press Night as day, paperback/nikki-lee birdsey
