Bonsai: Best Small Stories from Aotearoa New Zealand

"Bonsai brings together a pioneering collection of flash fiction and associated forms (prose poetry and haibun) from 165 writers in Aotearoa New Zealand, along with intriguing essays on this increasingly popular genre. In 200 small stories of no more than 300 words, where the translucent boundaries between prose and poetry are often transgressed, we discover a vast array of human experience."--Publisher's description.

About the author

Michelle Elvy is a writer and editor of flash fiction. Frankie McMillan has been called 'our maestro of flash fiction'. James Norcliffe is a poet, editor and writer for children.

Summary

Bonsai' brings together a pioneering collection of flash fiction and associated forms (prose poetry and haibun) from 165 writers in Aotearoa New Zealand, along with intriguing essays on this increasingly popular genre.

Product details

• Assisted by: Michelle Elvy (Editor), Frankie McMillan (Editor), James Norcliffe (Editor), James Samuel Norcliffe (Editor)
• Publisher: Canterbury University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781927145982
• ISBN: 978-1-927145-98-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 213 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies