How to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems

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INTRODUCING AN INTERNATIONAL POETRY SENSATION:Kate Camp has been much revered in New Zealand since her debut collection was published over twenty years ago, and has subsequently won all of the country's major literary awards for poetry. She is highly respected and cited as an influence for up-and-coming poets worldwide. the publication of How to Be Happy Though Human represents a career milestone as the first collection of her poetry to be published outside of NZ. It also represents the opportunity for a new and greater readership in North America to discover her unforgettable work and signals an exciting new direction in Anansi's poetry program - a mandate to bring the best voices in international poetry to readers in North America. In NZ, Camp is published by Victoria University Press, the country's preeminent independent literary publisher, who brought us acclaimed titles such as The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton and Can You Tolerate This? by Ashleigh Young.CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED MULTIDISCIPLINARY AUTHOR:Not only is Camp an acclaimed and respected poet working at the height of her craft, but she is also an excellent and accomplished memoirist, essayist, and host of a nationally syndicated radio program, in which she offers commentary on classic literature. In 2016, she was the recipient of the prestigious Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship (one of New Zealand's foremost literary awards) and in 2017 travelled to Menton, France for seven months to work on developing a new prose project. Her work in the memoir and essay form often traverses extremely personal themes, including infertility and addiction.EXCITING, ECLECTIC POETICS:Camp's poetry has been praised for its wide-ranging, culturally attuned, and eclectic subject matter, often drawing from popular culture and diverse fields of reference such as medicine, anthropology, economy, and literature. Another hallmark of her poetics is an irresistible and powerful blend of humour and seriousness that makes her work engaging and accessible.