Tigers at Awhitu Margaret A. Fitzgerald `Ernest was taught to shoot

`Ernest was taught to shoot by Pa when 21/2 and when 4 could handle a pistol

'' Diana Beaver

and with addictions

Clare Wenger is Emeritus Professor of Gerontology at Bangor University

Tigers at Awhitu Margaret A. Fitzgerald `Ernest was taught to shootSarah Broom's poetry profoundly engages the landscape of her native New Zealand. Experienced as both nurturing and menacing, tender and indifferent, it is the context within which other terrains are explored: heightened states of awareness, the physical extremes of illness, the drifts and tides of close relationships, the complexities of motherhood. Intensely conscious of death, her poetry is fiercely attached to life and love.