| From Interview with Kona Macphee | by Mark Thwaite |
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Kona Macphee's Tails strikes me as a better first
collection than most because technically this is a better first
collection than most...
The title poem "Tails" combines the personal, the anecdotal and the rhythmic as well as any of the best of the rest in this fine collection...
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You can read the rest of this review at Ready Steady Book.
Ready Steady Book, September 2004
| From Kona Macphee in Conversation | |
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Ok, your career includes musical composition, violin, computer science, robotics, astronomy and poetry? So, you get bored easily or there's a creative link?
I do have a very low tolerance for boredom, so I've spent a lot of years looking for areas I find absorbing. I like activities that are creative, emotionally engaging and intellectually challenging. Writing poems is the only one I've found so far that manages to be all three at once!
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You can read the rest of this interview at BBC Cambridgeshire.
BBC Cambridgeshire, March 2004
| From Chance encounter | by Carrie Etter |
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...Kona Macphee's finest work presents a perspective whose detachment is
rooted in genuine care for what it sees... Tails offers an impressive
range, indicative of a mature first
collection.
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Poetry Review, Vol 94 No 3, Autumn 2004
