Hoopla Cinema - Hoopla Series

Helen Rickerby is a poet, editor and publisher who lives in Wellington. She has published 2. 5 collections of poetry with the chapbook Heading North (Kilmog 2010) her most recent. She is co-managing editor of JAAM and runs boutique poetry publisher Seraph Press. The poems in Cinema look at the personal through the lens of a camera and the world of cinema through the unfiltered eye. Meet the boy who learns to kiss from action movies, the girl made up of symbols and the director with the aesthetic of a sniper on the roof. Hoopla Series 2014. 78 pages.