Claire Orchard
  • home
  • cold water cure
  • the reading room
  • contact

Cold Water Cure

Picture

Order online
​

​"At the heart of Claire Orchard's first poetry collection is Charles Darwin, during the intense period in which he was working on his controversial theory of evolution, On the Origin of Species. His world as traced in his notebooks and letters - his daily habits, his relationships, his health - is drawn out in full imaginative colour and echoed in unexpected ways in the poet's own world 200 years later. We also find here depictions of childhood, parenthood, odd characters, split-second decisions. This witty, compassionate book speaks of the beauty and strangeness of all living things, including, and perhaps especially, humankind."
​A Q&A about Cold Water Cure can be found here.

Daisy Fried's review in Poetry Magazine 
Sarah Jane Barnett's review in Pantograph Punch 
Paula Green's review on NZ Poetry Shelf
Emma Shi's review for Booksellers NZ
Elizabeth Morton in Landfall Review
Selected as one of the ten best poetry books of 2016
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • home
  • cold water cure
  • the reading room
  • contact