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Hollins' poems are exquisite snapshots of love, loss, childhood, uncurled ferns and pohutukawa trees. They are at once chilling yet humorous, familiar yet absurd. They evoke an afternoon at a beachside cafe: the patrons, like his poems, seem to have been gathered from every corner of the earth, yet they feel comfortingly familiar like the voice of an old friend.
Includes pen-portraits and interviews with fifty terrier-men.
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For someone with an intellectual disability, leaving a long stay hostel or hospital to go to a group home can be rather a frightening experience. This book is designed to help people with intellectual disabilities make a happy transition to a new home.
This book is what people think is spiritual to them. They have set their thoughts into poetry form.
Glory is in her 30s and hasn't had a job before. When she bumps into an old friend working in a clothes shop, she is inspired to set off on a path to a career of her own. Glory Wants a Job follows Glory's journey from the earliest planning sessions, through vocational profiling and a working interview, to settled employment and the social, financial and wellbeing benefits it brings. This book, and the different situations it explores, can help someone think about starting a career, their own strengths and interests that could be part of a job, and what finding and being in work might be like for them. This book is part of a mini series about moving towards work for people with intellectual disabilities.
All the poems within this book have some sort of humor to them. A very fine collection from good poets