In Standing on my Shadow an ailing Moana poet ponders her mortality while visiting the devastated yet rejuvenating Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine.
Nuclear medicine and surgery in Aotearoa had revealed biological bombs on short fuses. Lymph nodes dancing a cancerous fandango. Serie decides to accept adjuvant therapy when she returns home. She stands on the shadow of fear and death: walking within its potentiality, recording experiences and musings while exploring co-existing understandings of the potency of blood and body tissue within the western medical system.
Poetry
Paperback
Serie Barford
72 pages
H: 210mm W: 148mm