ELIZA DUNE DAIZA | haibun nation & other states


'haibun nation & other states' | ISBN 978 0 645797 770 | 80 pgs | September 2024





‘Haibun Nation & Other States is immersive literature. There is an indomitable relationship between the seasons, nature and environment with the forms of haibun, poetic prose and lyric poetry. The narratives integrate the familial and foreign, ancestral lands are visited or haunted, dreams take up the day, the vulnerable are rendered enduring, and the sombre sometimes arrives with irreverence. The entire collection tantalises with those startling moments left too often to photos, rather than the rare gifted words, which we have here.' — ANGELA COSTI

‘A truly breathtaking and disarming collection of poetry, a remarkably accomplished debut. Eliza Dune Daiza traverses the complexities and delicacies of identity, belonging and existence, with language at once tender and strong, present and wistful, evocative and visually arresting. This will take you places you didn’t know you needed to go. ’ — JESSICA RASCHKE