Olivia Macassey

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poem:

three tears
for the pale orange poppies
that bloom where you kissed me

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Bio

Olivia Livingston Macassey was born in Aotearoa New Zealand in 1975. She spent her childhood on the Coromandel Peninsula and moved to Auckland city in 1991. She completed a PhD in Film, Television and Media at the University of Auckland a couple of years ago, and now teaches film studies. She currently lives in Wellington.Picture I took of myself in the kitchen. Olivia Macassey

Her work has appeared in magazines including Landfall, Poetry New Zealand (in which she was the featued poet for issue 29), Brief/ ABDOTW, Magazine, Tongue in Your Ear; in compilations/anthologies such as New New Zealand Poets Read Their Work, Kaupapa, and NZ Gothic, and online at Blackmail Press and Snorkel. A book of poems, Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, was published by Titus in 2005.