Things I do not like...
The word: best.
November (I always started drinking again).
The word: monetising.
Passively making money for Google.
When people kept telling me: She's at peace now.
Plastic food: somehow more unsettling for never having been alive.
The sanitising of nursery rhymes: 'The old lady who swallowed a fly'; replacing Perhaps she'll die,
with: She's full now.
Wes Lee
Wes Lee is a writer and poet who lives in Paekākāriki. Her collections include By the Lapels (2019), Body, Remember (2017), Shooting Gallery (2016), and Cowboy Genes (2014). Lee’s work has also been featured in a number of publications, including Best New Zealand Poems 2019, Australian Poetry Journal, Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, Landfall, New Writing Scotland, and the NZ Listener. She has also been the recipient of many awards, including the Poetry New Zealand Prize in 2019.
