Born in 1949, Bluff-based Cilla McQueen is one of New Zealand’s best-loved poets. Poeta: Selected and New Poems brings together a definitive selection of her poetry spanning five decades, arrang
Cilla McQueen was New Zealand Poet Laureate for 2009-2011. One of her writing projects during her time as laureate was Serial, which she described as "exploring a space between prose and poetry." Seri
In this absorbing poetic memoir of her early life, Cilla McQueen, one of New Zealand’s major women poets, leads us over the stepping stones of childhood memory, some half submerged, some strong and gl
