Book Launch | A Passage of Yellow Red Birds by Robin Peace

Robin writes as water making its way from mountain to sea, and of time as a passage of yellow red birds that declares a harvest singing from the cut earth. When her mother faces death by starvation, the natural world is called on to give relief – a blackbird to swallow her, silverfish to consume her as a book.

This is a debut collection that shimmers even in sight of devastation.

Robin Peace is a geographer, teacher and academic. A rich sensibility of the natural world informs a life bound up with stories of displacement, difference and belonging. She works at Massey University and lives with her partner on the wetland margin of O te Pua on the Kāpiti coast.

Robin was recently made a Companion of Royal Society Te Apārangi.