Between Ourselves by Michael Laskey Laurel2022 timely anthology engages with the

timely anthology engages with the power of poetry to ask questions

“… this is gorgeous

censored or disparaged voices speak out from secluded spaces and moments of hidden history: from within a professor's office and a deserted department store

Owen Leeming was born in Christchurch

Between Ourselves by Michael Laskey Laurel2022 timely anthology engages with theBetween Ourselves is a brilliantly crafted collection of warm and eloquent poems that are at once a love letter to the future, and a contemplation of the past. The central section, Selfies an honest and discerning sequence of self portraits reflecting on what a long way weve come sits alongside the title poem, an intimate conversation with a grandchild just learning to walk. The Poetry Business