As Summers is one of Aotearoa's most interesting essayists, I knew the result would take the mundane and unsettle it and rearrange it in layers that could feed a reader for years, because this is what Summers does: he has a magician's way of looking and looking at the familiar until it's transformed. What happens when something that is supposed to be so good for us goes wrong?
What happens when something that is supposed to be so good for us goes wrong?
Much like the sun peering over a ridge, scattering the shadows of the night.
I knew I'd read Green Sea as soon as it landed in my letterbox.
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What happens when something that is supposed to be so good for us goes wrong? Much like the sun peering over a ridge, scattering the shadows of the night. I knew I'd read Green Sea as soon as it landed in my letterbox.
As Summers is one of Aotearoa's most interesting essayists, I knew the result would take the mundane and unsettle it and rearrange it in layers that could feed a reader for years, because this is what Summers does: he has a magician's way of looking and looking at the familiar until it's transformed.
I knew I'd read Green Sea as soon as it landed in my letterbox. Years ago Summers told me he was writing about one of his great fears.
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