'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