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It’s the stranded southern child you seek, standing in her hand-me-down dress and gumboots in the backyard, abandoned in the past. You lay claim to her. Your bowl becomes an island, anchored in ancestral seas. Its fauna of eggs passes from hand to hand: mother to child, maiden to crone, each mirrored in the other’s image…
Extract: Now you are a curved white boat, Flash Frontier August 2016
Photo: David Lawson
Trisha Hanifin
Trisha Hanifin has a Masters of Creative Writing (first class honours) from Auckland University of Technology (AUT). In 2014 she won the Auckland University’s Ingenio magazine short story competition (Me and Bobby Magee, Ingenio, Spring 2014). Her flash fiction has been published in various journals and anthologies including Bonsai: Best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand (Canterbury University Press, 2018). In 2018 she was runner up in the Divine Muses Emerging Poets competition. In 2019 a draft of her novel, The Time Lizard’s Archaeologist, was runner up in the unpublished manuscript section of the Ashton Wylie mind body spirit awards.
The Time Lizard’s Archaeologist was published in 2021.
You can buy it online from:
Bateman Books
Cloud Ink Press
Amazon (Kindle)
Audio Links
Click here to listen to an interview on Radio NZ’s Standing Room Only programme on The Time Lizard’s Archaeologist
Click the link below and scroll down to hear Trisha read her poem, Without the Scaffold of Words, published in Landfall, 241, and recorded for New Zealand Poetry Shelf.
https://nzpoetryshelf.com/2021/07/01/poetry-shelf-celebrates-landfall-241/
The Time Lizard’s Archaeologist
Cloud Ink Press
www.cloudink.co.nz
A Novel
2016. Auckland psychologist, Jason Winston, grieving over the death of his sister and increasingly disorientated by dreams and visions, begins to experience an alternate reality. Here he encounters Aja, a woman on a mission to discover who destroyed her village and stole their powerful source of fuel.
2026. Auckland suffers an ecological crisis: the bee population is almost wiped out and the human population exposed to a debilitating virus. Isolated camps are established in the bush for those infected.
2036. A time of increasing food shortages, growing unrest and the influence of ‘The Flock’, which promises a haven for young people fearful of their future. Jason is approached by a young woman, Griffin, troubled by her own disturbing dreams and visions. Do they offer unusual insight or are they a sign of psychosis? Does she have access to timeless wisdom or is she delusional? Can Jason help her find a way to comprehend the past, survive the present and create a better future?
Moving seamlessly between different times and places, and with its intertwining of mythology, psychology, philosophy, ecology and environmental concerns, The Time Lizard’s Archaeologist explores the psyche of the modern world.
“This novel is beautifully written and well structured. Interweaving past, present and future, it explores such concepts as Carl Jung’s collective unconscious and the effect of the destruction of our environment on human experience, yet never at the expense of the narrative and characterisation.”
Joan Rosier-Jones
Book Cover Design: Amandine Riera, Sandra Morris Illustration Agency
Click here to read an interview on nzbooklovers.co.nz
Click here to read a review on Kete Books.
Click here to read Helen McNeil’s comments in Publishers’ Picks 2021
Click here to read a review in Landfall Review online (Turning in Time, May 1, 2022 by Rachel O’Connor)