Broken Shadows

Wayne Seyb
Cold Hub Press
ISBN: 978-0-473-18116-1
Softcover chapbook 28pp - $19.95
December 2010

Twenty poems about early NZ naturalist Richard Henry.
With six woodcut illustrations by the author.
Wayne Seyb is best known as a visual artist who “seeks to immerse us emotionally in paint” (David Eggleton).
He has also worked on woodcuts & written poetry throughout his career. In 2007 he was one of nine invited artists who took part in the Caselberg Trust’s inaugural Creative Residency in Fiordland, an experience which led him to examine the life & work of Richard Henry, who as curator & caretaker of Resolution Island in Dusky Sound from 1894 to 1907, worked, often alone, to save Fiordland’s kakapo, kiwi & other birds from extinction.

visitations

docherty visited after
     blowing up parts of
  dusky sound for copper ore
and henry said go on your way
 a boathand taunted we let a dog
            loose at resolution island
        for months henry searched in
                    vain as the
midnight possum screamed
    you can’t get me
  can’t even see me

The book is available at Parsons Auckland, Unity Books Wellington, Scorpio, UBS Canterbury, Smith's Bookshop Christchurch, UBS Dunedin.