"I’m not a proponent of the Dewey Classification system. It was created in the 1870s and is based on a system that classifies knowledge according to Western perspectives and cultural bias. It doesn’t accommodate interdisciplinary subjects or emerging fields. What I consider nonfiction might be shelved in the fiction section of a library. I just enjoy books"
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Serie Barford
Serie Barford is a performance poet from Auckland, New Zealand.Her poetry collection, Tapa Talk, was published in 2007to critical acclaim. She has published four other books of poetry (in 1985, 1989, 2015, and 2021). Her poems and short stories have been published in journals and anthologies, among them Mauri Ola,Whetu Moana, Niu Voices, Landfall, Poetry New Zealand, Dreadlocks, Writing the Pacific, Trout, Blackmail Press, Snorkel and Best New Zealand Poems.Sleeping with Stones was shortlisted f
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