New Days for Old
Mar 2026 · Te Herenga Waka University Press
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New Days for Old is a delightful experiment in form by New Zealand poet James Brown. Each scene in this book is like a 1-minute pop song: its depths are at first easy to miss. But as the story proceeds, the grand scheme of things hoves into view: we are born, we crawl and then are carried away, and everything is a-shimmer, even the disappointments. New Days for Old is a life story in small scenes. Funny, moving, erotic, political and undeniably odd, it turns our most familiar-feeling days into something altogether new.
New Days for Old is a delightful experiment in form by New Zealand poet James Brown. Each scene in this book is like a 1-minute pop song: its depths are at first easy to miss. But as the story proceeds, the grand scheme of things hoves into view: we are born, we crawl and then are carried away, a...
About the author
James Brown describes himself as ' a Sunday poet who fell in with the wrong crowd' . His poetry collections are New Days for Old (2026), Slim Volume (2024), The Tip Shop (2022), Selected Poems (2020), Floods Another Chamber (2017), Warm Auditorium (2012), The Year of the Bicycle (2006), which was a finalist in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2007, Favourite Monsters (2002), Lemon (1999), and Go Round Power Please (1996), which won the Best First Book Award for Poetry.
James Brown describes himself as ' a Sunday poet who fell in with the wrong crowd' . His poetry collections are New Days for Old (2026), Slim Volume (2024), The Tip Shop (2022), Selected Poems (2020), Floods Another Chamber (2017), Warm Auditorium (2012), The Year of the Bicycle (2006), which was...
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