Bill Nelson

Bill Nelson currently lives Wellington, New Zealand. He completed an MA in Creative Writing at the Victoria University Wellington in 2009, where he was awarded the Biggs Poetry Prize. He has been published in New Zealand journals, such as Hue and Cry, Sport, The 4th Floor and Turbine. Currently, he is working on a manuscript of poems that explores the voice and acts of ventriloquism.

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Bill Nelson  | 
Issue 62.2 Spring 2013

There is a hand asleep under a heavy hip bone. There is memory of love, a pip and soft bruises. I’m not sure how we fit but it seems this dead hand is my hand, this angular body is your …