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Catherine Bagnall is a senior lecturer in the School of Design at Massey University. Her work focuses on performance practices and its intersection with dress. Jane Sayle has been a dealer in curios and ephemera, an art writer and reviewer, and a lecturer in art and design history. For the past decade she has lived in California, France and Germany, and has recently returned home to New Zealand. This is her first book of poems.
'This collaboration between an artist and a poet, both raised near Wellington, is another beautiful hardcover book from Massey University Press, in a cute and compact ''poetry book'' size. Catherine Bagnall's dreamy, exquisitely coloured watercolours drift layers of meaning in the gauzy colours of summer leaves, spring greens and indigo skies through Jane Sayle's interleaved lines: On we go Empty suitcase made of leaves and a stomach light as air just to walk up in the sky talking with you; There is something so alive about Sayle's metaphors - the ''empty suitcase made of leaves,'' the ''rabbit under the pillow/birds in the bed'', ''an ember-winged monarch/breathes in and out/the shadow of daylight'' a spirit which sneaks through, over and under Bagnall's paintings of human forms transformed by mischievous animal cloaks.' - Jenny Nicholls, Waiheke Weekender, 15 April 2021. ; 'A magical and unique reading experience.' - Paula Green
