{"product_id":"sing-to-me-of-home","title":"Sing to Me of Home","description":"\u003cp\u003eToday, for a heartbeat of time\u003cbr\u003ethe day mutes rain’s tattoo\u003cbr\u003eunravels a sodden skein\u003cbr\u003efrom the sullen blanket of sky\u003cbr\u003elets through a quaver of white.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNot enough blue sky to make\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ea sailor a pair of pants\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eyour father would say\u003cbr\u003ebefore his proud heart surrendered\u003cbr\u003eto time’s savage pecking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story of the poet’s motherless and peripatetic childhood is told in the poems of \u003cem\u003eNo One Home\u003c\/em\u003e, followed by his time as a boy soldier in Home Base. \u003cem\u003eSing to Me of Home \u003c\/em\u003egathers the best of those poems into one volume along with work from three earlier collections and other poems published and new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKeith Westwater’s work teases apart his own life with honesty and compassion, wry humour and rage, and applies that same lens to life in Aotearoa. Rugby, the Christchurch earthquakes, colonialism’s impact on native birds and the plight of Pōneke’s rough sleepers jostle each other alongside poems that exalt the everyday and celebrate those places we call home and all the ways they carry us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Keith Westwater","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49344203784443,"sku":"9781067096687","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0806\/8176\/3067\/files\/Screenshot2026-09-21at6.56.42PM.png?v=1789973815","url":"https:\/\/aureliabooks.co.nz\/products\/sing-to-me-of-home","provider":"Aurelia Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}