Wit of the Staircase

by Saradha Koirala

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Saradha Koirala studied English literature at Otago University before training as a secondary school teacher in Wellington. She has a Nepali father and a Kiwi mother who encouraged her at an early age to get out of sticky situations with wordplay and well-timed wit. In 2007 Saradha completed a Masters in Creative Writing from Victoria University.

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timjones 280 reviews

I enjoyed this first collection a lot. Saradha Koirala's poems are short (mostly), elegantly constructed, and pull in a range of words you don't often find in New Zealand poetry.There isn't a bad poem in the book: I found some of them a bit slight (which may just be another way of saying that I didn't connect with the subject matter), but the best of them, such as "Echolalia", "Once a fort knight", "Nepal" and "Courtenay Place" are an excellent marriage of form and content.

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