New Caselberg Publication....
Neville Carr and Caselberg Press are pleased to announce the publication of —
Wanting to tell you everything
by ELIZABETH BROOKE-CARR
Award-winning poet, Elizabeth Brooke-Carr, made her life in Dunedin and was loved by many. Wanting to tell you everything is Elizabeth’s much awaited first collection – one she would have made if she had stayed alive, but instead her writing group finished the task and the final book shines with that aroha.
Along with the allure of a carefully wrought, graceful elegance to these poems, there is also the tough to offset the tender; the fierce that pits itself against the fragile. This is poetry written by a poet who persisted in seeking out what grace, what fire, what beauty flowers inside place, memory and being.
—Kay McKenzie Cooke
This is a wonderful book of poems. Delighting with reminiscences, reflections and insights on life and a world she loved, mapped in vivid detail and memorable images. I was amazed, in awe and overcome by the strength of courage and fortitude she records in the face of death by cancer. Such clarity. Such apparent detachment. A sense of humour even as she embarks on her journey from which ‘there is no going back’.—Riemke Ensing
Elizabeth Brooke-Carr's poems combine a highly observant eye with a questing, independent mind. They are – like their author – intelligent, witty and feisty, willing to look the world in the face, willing to bear what they find there. No matter its subject, a Brooke-Carr poem is grounded in life, its mysteries, tragedies, comic absurdities and, always and endlessly, its ‘silver shoon’.—Sue Wootton
Elizabeth Brooke-Carr, passed away in September 2019. She touched many lives as a friend, teacher, counsellor and writer and is greatly missed by all who knew her. She was the inaugural Caselberg Trust writer-in-residence. The experience meant a great deal to her as an emerging writer. It is fitting therefore that the Caselberg Trust co-publish this beautiful book.
Wanting to tell you everything was launched and celebrated by a large gathering of friends and family on Friday 10 July at the Dunedin Public Library — and is available for sale at the University Bookshop, Dunedin.