Moonlight

Mercy Hospice Auckland together with Random House and Hospice New Zealand were pleased to host the recent launch of Moonlight, a collection of poetry about grief, loss , death and dying. The event took place on 18 July - Montana Poetry day.

Moonlight is the work of expatriate New Zealand writer Andrew Johnston, himself one of the country’s most outstanding poets, who has donated his royalties from the anthology to Hospice New Zealand. Andrew lives in Paris where he is an editor on the International Herald Tribune. Currently working on a major critical study of New Zealand poetry, he was back in New Zealand last year as the JC Stout Fellow at Victoria University – and proposed the idea of a book of poems on death and dying to publisher Nicola Legat at Random House.

“Andrew’s father died about eight years ago, at the Mary Potter Hospice. He received wonderful care there and Andrew wanted to do give something back to the hospice community. So he approached Godwit (an imprint of Random House) with the idea for the book.”

Moonlight is a collection of poems by modern New Zealand poets on death, dying, grief and loss. The poets (and in some cases their estates) agreed to waive copyright fees in acknowledgement of the fundraising potential for Hospice New Zealand and associated hospices.

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