Formica Andrea Beaty The Incredible Theft

The Incredible Theft

He rewards her efforts with a strange golden coin

and they will meet again in San Quentin before their strange double drama comes to a violent and revelatory end

the smallest one was Madeline

The history of this agreement is a remarkable one

Formica Andrea Beaty The Incredible TheftThe characters in these poems are typists, returned servicemen, teachers, people without pretension but with their own colourful inner lives. The title poem Formica is subtle yet so rich with imagery that it brings to mind a compressed Alice Munro story. Fiona Kidman Each poem in Formica tells a story that grabs you with its pace, perception and delicious detail. Together, they offer a picture of an entire cohort of Kiwi women growing up in the 1950s