<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Emma Barnes]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Emma Barnes]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/christchurch/rss/search?query=Emma%20Barnes&amp;searchType=author&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:50:23 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[If We Knew How to We Would]]></title><description><![CDATA[I am an unmade bed. I am a single thing made up of many other things. I am a reason, a raising, a roof to be raised. I am a song you sing in your sleep. I am a collection of dots. I am a need you buried in the back garden. I am a literal spray of light across a wooden floor in a house where the sun has only just returned. I am a musical phrase. I am a lead light. I am a host. I am seven different names. I am all the fat in my body. I am the sky when it is early spring and I can't believe I exist in this colour range. I am so blue. If We Knew How to We Would answers a question nobody asked: How many thoughts can you work into a single poem? Through breakups and a pandemic, health issues and deaths, Emma Barnes's second collection is a riveting, overflowing and grief-stricken reckoning with the ordinary: a skinful of spit; insides scooped out with a melon baller; cracked like an egg and nothing inside. 'It is too much to say nothing about. It is nothing to say too much about'.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1587168</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1587168</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barnes, Emma]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1587168037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Am in Bed With You]]></title><description><![CDATA[Playful and fluid but completely serious, Emma Barnes's surreal phantasmagoria I Am in Bed with You leads us through the very personal worlds of sex, gender and the body. Barnes cracks jokes, makes us uncomfortable, shows us a little tenderness, leaves a lot unsaid and does it all with language that provokes and confounds. This collection is personal and fantastical, funny and excruciating. It's poetry in the process of unravelling most of what you thought you knew.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1242037</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1242037</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barnes, Emma]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1242037037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Girl From Hard Times Hill]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Megan's father finally returns from Occupied Germany in the years following World War II, she should be pleased ? shouldn't she? But she hardly knows her father, and his arrival means moving out of Nana's house into the city. Megan hates the changes to her life, yet when she has the opportunity to be the first member of her working-class family to go to Grammar School, it is her dad who is behind her all the way. Can Megan adapt to her new life, and take advantage of a changing Britain?]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C852198</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C852198</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barnes, Emma]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/852198037</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wolfie]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lucie has always longed for a dog. But not one this big. Or with such sharp teeth. Or with such a hungry look in its eyes. Lucie realises her new pet is not a dog...but a wolf. Not only that, but a wolf with magical powers. A talking wolf is not an easy thing to hide from your family and friends. Or from the bully next door. And as Lucie grows to love Wolfie, she also realises that her new companion is in terrible danger...]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1723327</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1723327</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barnes, Emma]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1723327037</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Short]]></title><description><![CDATA[In this collection of 100 stories, a range of New Zealand writers, both well known and emerging, deliver emotionally charged stories that punch well above their weight and length. And there's more! Each of the stories has been translated into te reo Māori (and some are written in te reo and translated into English) by some of this country's most experienced translators, making this book a valuable contributor to our literary landscape that rewards repeated readings.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1561358</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1561358</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1561358037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Big Book of Small Stories = Poto : Iti Te Kupu, Nui Te Kōrero</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out Here]]></title><description><![CDATA[We became teenagers in the nineties when New Zealand felt a lot less cool about queerness and gender felt much more rigid. We knew instinctively that hiding was the safest strategy. But how to find your community if you're hidden? Aotearoa is a land of extraordinary queer writers, many of whom have contributed to our rich literary history. But you wouldn't know it. Decades of erasure and homophobia have rendered some of our most powerful writing invisible. Out Here will change that. This landmark book brings together and celebrates queer New Zealand writers from across the gender and LGBTQIA+ spectrum with a generous selection of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and much much more. From established names to electrifying newcomers, the cacophony of voices brought together in Out Here sing out loud and proud, ensuring that future generations of queers are afforded the space to tell their stories and be themselves without fear of retribution or harm.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1260230</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1260230</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1260230037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>An Anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ Writers From Aotearoa</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enamel]]></title><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C687200</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C687200</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/687200037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item></channel></rss>