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The forest

Helen Heath, IILM, Victoria University, New Zealand

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In the forest
a little bird
and a monster
and a path
overgrown
and dark
and in the forest
you can’t see the
wood for the pixels
and a virtual tour
of the woodcutter’s cottage
each room slightly more
ominous than the last
through the window
framed
a monster
and a path
and a little bird.

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Helen Heath’s debut collection of poetry Graft was published in 2012 by VUP to critical acclaim. ‘Postcards’ from Graft was selected for Best New Zealand Poems 2012. Graft was selected for the NZ Listener top 100 books for 2012 and won a VUW Post Graduate Research Excellence Award. She is currently working towards her PhD in Creative Writing at the IIML, researching how science is represented in the work of post-war, contemporary UK poets writing in the 80s and 90s.

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