{"product_id":"people-person","title":"People Person","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards; \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMARY AND PETER BIGGS AWARD FOR POETRY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nzbookawards.nz\/Images\/Assets\/44767\/1\/Poetry%20Sampler.pdf\" title=\"Ockhams Sampler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eClick here to visit the Ockhams Sampler; Extracts from the finalist books in the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nzbookawards.nz\/new-zealand-book-awards\/2023-awards\/shortlist\/\" title=\"Ockham 2023 Shortlist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eClick here to visit the Ockham NZ Book Awards 2023 Shortlist\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003ePeople Person is a debut collection by Joanna Cho.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eThese adventurous, funny and dissonant poems are about the endless work of fitting in when the goalposts are constantly changing. They ask: how can we nail the perfect routine? How can we be a people person in the world? What parts of ourselves must we leave behind?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eMoving between South Korea and New Zealand, Joanna Cho's poems range excitingly in form, drawing upon and cleverly subverting the folktale, the phone conversation and the basketball game.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eAt the heart of this book is a mother - a generous, artistic woman who has limited choices in life, in comparison with our narrator, who is almost paralysed by choice - and the deep, almost haunting comfort she brings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e'This book is taut and strong, rigorous and funny. With skill and care Joanna Cho has produced a work which envelopes and accommodates but never gives. And somehow, also, all this power makes room for hope and tears and a renewed sense of the world. In these ways, it is very much like the magic sock which opens this magnificent collection which shows the essayistic potential of the poem and the poetic potential of the essay. People Person is an amazing reading experience which will make itself felt in your non-reading world.' -Pip Adam\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoetry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoanna Cho\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e96 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eH: 210mm W: 160mm\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42535827701910,"sku":"9781776920068","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0587\/4978\/0118\/products\/jacket--53_7b38d5aa-87f5-48d5-9347-aa2cc678645a.jpg?v=1680148410","url":"https:\/\/www.tawabooksandpost.co.nz\/products\/people-person","provider":"Tawa Books \u0026 Post","version":"1.0","type":"link"}