Denise Bennett

For Emily and Tim   All this time you have been unspooling your lives,   like those summer afternoons when we watched your small feet   slipping on wet grass, your hands feeling the pull [… read more ]

I tell my children you are here because   in 1913 a Maori chief gave the captain of HMS New Zealand a piupiu, a skirt made from flax.   A ceremonial gift with the prophecy [… read more ]

Imaginary words written by a sailor on board HMS M33 – Gallipoli 1915 I lift the lid and find his whole life harboured here; things that he kept safe: a photo of his wife Mary [… read more ]