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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nShining Land: Looking for Robin Hyde<\/em> brings together award-winning novelist Paula Morris and seasoned photographer Haru Sameshima. It is the second in the k\u014drero series of picture books edited by Lloyd Jones, written and made for grown-ups, and designed to showcase leading New Zealand writers and artists working together in a collaborative and dynamic way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Shining Land<\/em> Morris and Sameshima focus on the New Zealand journalist, poet, fiction writer and war correspondent Robin Hyde, exploring three locations important to her difficult life and ground-breaking work. This beautifully considered small book richly rewards the reader and stretches the notion of what the book can do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Like the best picture books, Shining Land<\/em> is short and physically beautiful; the narrative and the images are inseparable and entirely complementary; it\u2019s a book to read in a single sitting, and return to. And, like the best picture books, it opens up vistas well beyond its relatively modest scale.\u2019 \u2014 Sarah Shieff, Academy of New Zealand Literature<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n “As I try to write about Shining Land<\/em> my words keep breaking its incandescent magic (shining), its accumulating moods. The photographs are uncanny, eerie, both empty and full, empty of human presence because Robin is missing and missed. The storm chasers outside the frame. I keep imagining Robin entering the scene. I like that. When I look at the shot of Rangitoto ki te Tonga D\u2019Urville Island and Te Aumiti French Pass from French Pass Road with gloomy skies and greys I become grey state. I like this so much. How can I speak? This is where pregnant Robin posed as a married woman, before moving to Picton and then back to Wellington with her secret baby and and her secret heartache. I am on the pass looking down at the grey isolation. I will never know Robin, I will never be in Robin\u2019s shoes, but I feel. And that is what Paula and Haru do. They feel Robin in the depths of their looking and their making. It is contagious.”\u2013\u2013 Paula Green, NZ Poetry Shelf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n ISBN: 9780995131828 RRP $40<\/p>\n\n\n
Massey University Press
12\/11\/2020 96pp 257 x 200 mm Hard cover<\/p>\n\n\n\n