The Games by Harry Josephine Giles #Gifts On our way we encounter

On our way we encounter a skiing Pohutukawa Tree

Manuela Palacios

Rowland Bagnall

with a delicacy of hand and eye that again and again presents us with domestic perceptions that have what Melville called “the shock of recognition”

Anyone who has ever worked in retail will recognise the characters and situations

The Games by Harry Josephine Giles #Gifts On our way we encounterThe Games is a book of play with language. In Scots and English, it mucks about with sound poetry, found poetry, computer generated poetry, dirty poetry and others ways to blur and bust the borders of genre. Its themes are ecology, power and sex: how can you have fun in a system that's trying to take power away from you? The Games makes and breaks rules in an effort to live a full life in a full world.