Chris Price Biography
Chris Price was born in 1966 in Reading, England. She is a poet, editor, and educator. Her collections of poetry include Husk (2002) and The Blind Singer (2009). She has also published an eccentric biographical dictionary that samples the lives of both real and fictional characters called Brief Lives (2006).
Price has won and been shortlisted for several nationally recognized literary awards, and in 2008 she was the Auckland University Writer in Residence at the Michael King Writers' Centre. Recently she has been awarded the prestigious New Zealand Post Mansfield Writer in Residence scholarship in Menton, France.
We were on the rebound
from perfection, piling on the dirt —
a mellotron, the wheezy breath
of old vinyl, character
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If this were child's play
and I could choose
I'd be the dog —
body a soft black curve
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(for Gertrude Elion, Nobel Prize-winning chemist)
It begins with the swing of limbs,
simple as catching
a ball: the rhythm of release
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Imagining transcendence
we pinned the wings
of swans to the blunt
nubs of our shoulder-blades
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If David Beach is right, and
a poem is an opening line
plus work, then how to work
up this opening line when it has
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