Cliff Fell

Cliff Fell is the author of two collections of poems, both published by Victoria University Press, of Wellington: The Adulterer’s Bible (2003) and Beauty of the Badlands (2008). He is the recipient of a number of awards, including the Jessie Mackay Prize in Poetry. He lives on a small farm near Motueka in the upper South Island and teaches creative writing at Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology.

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Chagall in Vitebsk

Cliff Fell  | 
Issue 62.2 Spring 2013

He believed in the dust that was beaten from rugs, how it became the stars of the Milky Way, and he would share the last hours of animals with his uncle the butcher who played to them on the violin. …