We are tiny beneath the light charts the end of a marriage and the tumble of tiny moments that make up a life under stress, including the unexpected discoveries that can still bring joy – watching a child fly a blue kite or weaving words to make sense of sorrow. Heidi’s second collection manages to speak of the beautiful and the ugly in a single breath, and out of enormity creates small parcels of light.
A poem from this collection – ‘Piha Beach, two years on’ – was used as part of U2’s Joshua Tree tour pre-show in Auckland.
Marcus Hobson writes in Booklovers NZ, ‘A little warning to start. If you have just split from your partner, or are just about to, wait a while before you read these poems. They won’t make you feel any better. But from the vantage point of time and perspective, these poems are gems of feeling and emotion. Poems of few words, but rollercoasters of emotion.’
