Bio
Suzanne Herschell lives in the harbour side community of Eastbourne across from Wellington in New Zealand. A former teacher of accelerate students and mother of four, Suzanne is a poet and an award winning artist represented in NZ and overseas. She is also a curator at the NZ Academy of Fine Arts, and a selector and judge of national exhibitions and this year is curator of NZ's 2018 Parkin Drawing Prize. Her poems have been published in Meniscus (Australia), NZ Poetry Society - A Fine Line, Blackmail Press, Shot Glass Journal, Fib Review (USA), The Ghazal Page, Plate in the Mirror 2016 Anthology, Eastbourne Anthology (Makaro Press) and National Poetry Day selections.
Suzanne Herschell
Weight of Words
there are sanitising words
that strip away humanity like
collateral damage
anticipated but expendable
victims
just the cost of conflict
means to an end
the jargon lives on
they were there those words in
Vietnam Iraq Bastion Point
and the fallout here
relationship flicked
words
weapons of war