Slip Stream

In SLIP STREAM, Paula Green tells a personal story of breast cancer, from an initial mammogram to biopsy, operations, radiotherapy treatment and recovery. The poems chart time passing and seasons turning by procedures done, books read, appointments made, food cooked and dreams dreamed. In deceptively simple language, Green highlights the small distractions and coping games of everyday life: cooking; music; solving cryptic crossword puzzles ('five across must be a pulse'). SLIP STREAM is both a moving but uplifting book about an experience with cancer and a writer's thoughtful exploration of how life may (or may not) be expressed in words.

Paula Green is the poetry reviewer for the NZ Herald and the author of poetry collections, including Chrome, Cookhouse, Crosswind, and Making Lists for Frances Hodkins, and children’s books, including Aunt Concertina and her Niece Evalina.