Dear All,
My third book, These Hands Are Not Ours, published by Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, is now available for pre-order. It will be released in early June 2009.
Jill Chan's These Hands Are Not Ours, her third book of poetry, explores the deep and sometimes uncanny relationships between our human experiences and our wider, more tenuous though, at times, no less ambiguous experiences of the divine. These poems are written in an almost subliminal language filled with beautiful tension and silent immensity.
Perhaps we are never created
until we are brave enough
to be made.
Until these hands
are not ours
but the sky’s,
we claim too much
of the night,
the love,
its making.
(excerpt from 'Claim')
Jill Chan grew up in Manila, Philippines. She has a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry. In 1994, she migrated to New Zealand. Her poems have appeared in Poetry New Zealand, JAAM, Trout, Takahe, Asia and Pacific Writers Network, MiPOesias, Tears in the Fence, foam:e, and New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive. Her two previous collections, The Smell of Oranges, and Becoming Someone Who Isn't, were published by Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop. She is the editor of Poetry Sz: demystifying mental illness, and Numinous: Spiritual Poetry.
Please mention that you learned about These Hands Are Not Ours through the author when you order your copy via the link below:
http://www.earlofseacliff.co.nz/TheseHands.htm
Thank you very much.
Cheers
Jill
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