I have lifted quotations and biographical facts, and adapted images and phrases, from the following published works of Robin Hyde –
A Home in This World. Auckland: Longman Paul, 1984.
Dragon Rampant. Auckland: New Women’s Press, 1984.
The Godwits Fly. Auckland: Auckland University Press and Oxford University Press, 1974.
Young Knowledge: The Poems of Robin Hyde. Ed. Michele Leggott. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2003.
Your Unselfish Kindness. Ed. Mary Edmond-Paul. Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2011.
– as well as from the biography by Gloria Rawlinson and Derek Challis, The Book of Iris: A Life of Robin Hyde. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002.
On page 25, the lines beginning ‘Some cultures consider crying / to be undignified …’ are adapted from Lisa Samuels’ essay ‘Membranism, Wet Gaps, Archipelago Poetics’, in Reading Room issue 4 (2010), aucklandartgallery.com/library/reading-room-journal
On page 58, the lines ‘She raises the air in front of her body, steps wholly into it / and is gone’ are a variation on James Wright’s ‘and now she steps wholly into the air, now she is gone / Wholly, into the air’ in his poem ‘Beginning’, in The Branch Will Not Break. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1963.
On page 65, the lines ‘Death is a house / inside the forest. / It is made of many / doors’ are a variation on Claire Hero’s ‘Death is a house inside the forest. / Come. I am made of many doors’, in her poem ‘The Night was Animal’, in Sing, Mongrel. Las Cruces: Noemi Press, 2009.
Personal correspondence has also been drawn on and used in the text.
This book is dedicated to my family. Thank you to Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle, Hera Lindsay Bird, Jessica Hansell, Louisa Kasza, Ross Brighton, Jarrad Dickson, Lauren Gould, Alice Miller, Lisa Samuels, Michele Leggott, Lynn Jenner, James Brown, Chris Price, Katrina Duncan, Anna Hodge and Iris Wilkinson, aka Robin Hyde.