Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa / the mighty Pacific Ocean pervades Night Swimming—whether swimming or sailing, surfing or drifting, or just quietly contemplating, the author is never far from its shores. These are lyrical poems of aroha and whanau, loss and yearning, renewal and erasure—the tide going out, the tide coming in.

Kiri Piahana-Wong is a New Zealander of Māori (Ngāti Ranginui), Chinese and Pākehā (English) ancestry. She is a poet, editor and publisher. Night Swimming is her first collection.

Published by Anahera Press, June 2013
Soft cover, 50 pages
148×210mm