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Geography for the Lost
(Bloodaxe 2007 / AUP)
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'Geography for the Lost has a global sweep and a solid, thoughtful core. These new poems speak from different parts of the world and different moments of history but always of the many ways of being lost and alienated.
The voices here, from a Roman housewife to a Chinese bar-owner in Berlin or an Argentine DJ, are those of the heart-sick, the culturally disorientated, temporary dwellers in cities, lives, destinies.
Colourful, haunting, funny, bitter-sweet, they mirror the restlessness of the human condition in Kassabova's best book yet.'
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'An immaculately conceived selection of poems.'
Simon Sweetman, The Lumi're Reader
"It's hardly surprising that she should be drawn in her writing to the marginalised, the dislocated, the migratory. Her characters are continually on the move, with cultures riotously intermingled and the notion of home problematic."
Iain Sharp, Sunday Star-Times
Reviews
Transition Tradition
Geography for the Lost, NZ Books.pdf
Miscellaneous
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Someone else's life (Bloodaxe Books 2003 / AUP)
'Someone else's life tells with supreme clarity and fearless candor what it means to be adrift in the last years of the 20th century and the first of the 21st. It is a book of perpetual exile, of endless comings and goings, in a world that offers neither stability, nor salvation. Still, the very intelligence of this book - sceptical, riveting, passionate - suggests that there may be an answer to the uncertainty that is everywhere around us.'
- Mark Strand, US Poet Laureate
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Listen to poems read by Kapka courtesy of the NZ Poetry Archive
My Life in Two Parts (1.2Mb .mp3 file)
Amnesia at Eagle Reach (940Kb .mp3 file)
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Dismemberment
(AUP 1998)
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All roads lead to the sea
(AUP 1997)
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Poems published in:
Guardian
Scotsman
Financial Times
Writing on the Wall
TLS (The Times Literary Supplement)
Poetry Review
Poetry London
Guardian
Independent
Modern Poetry in Translation
Aleph, Colombia
Casa del Tiempo, Mexico - Poems in Spanish, translated by Enrique Moya
Landfall
Poetry NZ
Sport
Heat
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