Siobhan Harvey

Siobhan Harvey is the author of the poetry collection Lost Relatives (Steele Roberts, 2011) and a book of literary interviews, Words Chosen Carefully: New Zealand Writers in Discussion (Cape Catley, 2010). Recently her work has appeared in magazines from the U.S., Australia, the U.K., and New Zealand, such as Evergreen Review, Meanjin, Stand, Structo and Tuesday Poem. She's the Poetry Editor of Takahe and Coordinator of National Poetry Day in New Zealand. In 2011, she was runner up in the Landfall Essay Prize and Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She has a Poet's Page on The Poetry Archive.

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Cloudmother

Siobhan Harvey  | 
Issue 62.2 Spring 2013

When a child starts school, so too the parents: this is a truth cloudmother can’t escape. Here are others – when a teacher favours a child, so too the parents; when a classmate befriends a child, so too the parents; …