South Island

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Shift, a collection of poems by Rhian Gallagher, published by Auckland University Press, has won the 2012 NZ Post Book Award for Poetry. Shift encompasses a departure from London, where Gallagher lived for 18 years, and a return to the pines and paddocks of her native South Island. It was described by convenor of judges Chris Bourke as an example of lyrical poetry at its very best. ‘The poems offer elegance, mysteriousness, musical harmonies, satisfying quietness and subtle emotions. Sounds and themes stitch the collection with an assured and unifying touch. You fall upon little autobiographical traces in the