Serie Barford

Serie Barford is a performance poet from Auckland, New Zealand.Her poetry collection, Tapa Talk, was published in 2007to critical acclaim. She has published four other books of poetry (in 1985, 1989, 2015, and 2021). Her poems and short stories have been published in journals and anthologies, among them Mauri Ola,Whetu Moana, Niu Voices, Landfall, Poetry New Zealand, Dreadlocks, Writing the Pacific, Trout, Blackmail Press, Snorkel and Best New Zealand Poems.Sleeping with Stones was shortlisted for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Quotes “The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love, to be loved. To never forget your own significance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity of the life around you. Books are escape hatches from conventional temporality. They are portals. Flight co-ordinates to elsewhere. The best thing about reading is turning pages to unlock minds and worlds. Reading takes me on journeys where I encounter the familiar and the unimaginable. It transports me beyond my geographical location, but can also ground me in my neighbourhood books are escape hatches I’m not a proponent of the Dewey Classification system. It was created in the 1870s and is based on a system that classifies knowledge according to Western perspectives and cultural bias. It doesn’t accommodate interdisciplinary subjects or emerging fields. What I consider nonfiction might be shelved in the fiction section of a library. I just enjoy books fiction or nonfiction External links Category: living people Category:Women authors from New Zealand Category:Poets from New Zealand