{"title":"Amber Dawn","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmber Dawn’s work offers a vivid exploration of contemporary life through the lenses of \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGeneral Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e. Her stories and poems delve into raw, unfiltered experiences, blending sharp social insight with compelling personal narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect bold, inventive writing that challenges conventions and reflects on identity, creativity, and resilience. Amber Dawn’s books capture the complexity of human emotion with a fresh, unapologetic voice.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sodom-road-exit-by-amber-dawn-9781551527161","title":"Sodom Road Exit","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second novel by Lambda Literary Award winner Amber Dawn that is both a family melodrama and a lesbian supernatural thriller.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt's the summer of 1990 and the small town of Crystal Beach has lost its beloved, long-running amusement park, leaving the lakeside village a virtual ghost town. It is back to this fallen community that Starla Mia Martin must return to live with her overbearing mother after dropping out of university and racking up significant debt. But an economic downturn, mother-daughter drama, and Generation X disillusionment soon prove to be the least of Starla's troubles: a mysterious and salacious force begins to dog Starla; inexplicable sounds in the night and unimaginable sights spotted in the periphery. Soon enough, she must confront the unresolved traumas that haunt Crystal Beach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSodom Road Exit\u003c\/i\u003e might read like a conventional paranormal thriller, except that Starla is far from a conventional protagonist. Where others might feel fear, Starla feels lust and queer desire. When others might run, Starla draws the horror nearer. And in turn, she draws a host of capricious characters toward her—all of them challenged to seek answers beyond their own temporal realities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSodom Road Exit\u003c\/i\u003e, the second novel by Amber Dawn, is a book that's alive with both desire and dread.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46714866368748,"sku":"9781551527161","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11007013482740.jpg?v=1754374233"},{"product_id":"buzzkill-clamshell-by-amber-dawn-9781551529790","title":"Buzzkill Clamshell","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmber Dawn's latest poetry collection flaunts the chronically pained body as a source of lewd feminine power.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs a novelist, memoirist, and poet, Amber Dawn regularly lays her heart bare in work that is fiery, raw, and intensely personal. In \u003ci\u003eBuzzkill Clamshell\u003c\/i\u003e, her third poetry collection, Amber Dawn circumvents the expectations of so-called confessional poetry, offering twisted mythmaking, extreme hyperbole, and lyrical gutter-mouthing that explore themes of sick and disabled queerness, aging, and desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith poems populated by severed heads, domme swan maidens, horny oracles, and other horrible purveyors of pleasure, \u003ci\u003eBuzzkill Clamshell\u003c\/i\u003e reads as if a leather dyke and a demonic goat had a baby, gleefully embracing the perverse while stomping its way through chronic pain and complex PTSD.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlready acclaimed for her candid and often kinky verse, Amber Dawn pushes further into trauma-informed eroticism with self-assured irreverence and uncomfortable abjectivity. Beneath her brilliant, carnivalesque imagery lies a prayer not for the pain to end, but for finding fantastic new ways to cope with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Unafraid to keen keenly for what's unfinished, wounded, shuttered, Amber Dawn's poetry knows that being a buzzkill is world-making process: mythically vivid and skinless in its witchy vitality that spells and sings exactly the heart of what poetry is.' — So Mayer, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTruth \u0026amp; Dare\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Ribald and unrepentant, in turns ferocious and tender, the poems in \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBuzzkill Clamshell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e showcase Amber Dawn's trademark wit and emotional range as they map the terrain of sexuality, aging, chronic illness, and trauma with gorgeous language that is somehow both shocking and subtle. Resilience has never looked quite so sexy or so sacred.' — Kai Cheng Thom, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFalling Back in Love with Being Human\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47423904284908,"sku":"9781551529790","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781551529790.jpg?v=1774769679"},{"product_id":"my-art-is-killing-me-and-other-poems-by-amber-dawn-9781551527932","title":"My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn her novels, poetry, and prose, Amber Dawn has written eloquently on queer femme sexuality, individual and systemic trauma, and sex work justice, themes drawn from her own lived experience and revealed most notably in her award-winning memoir \u003ci\u003eHow Poetry Saved My Life\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this, her second poetry collection \u003ci\u003eMy Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, Amber Dawn takes stock of the costs of coming out on the page in a heartrendingly honest and intimate investigation of the toll that art-making takes on artists. These long poems offer difficult truths within their intricate narratives that are alternately incendiary, tender, and rapturous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a cultural era when intersectional and marginalised writers are topping bestseller lists, Amber Dawn invites her readers to take an unflinching look at what we expect from writers, and from each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIncludes a foreword by writer Doretta Lau (\u003ci\u003eHow Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461186011372,"sku":"9781551527932","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781551527932-my-art-is-killing-me-and-other-poems.jpg?v=1774961425"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/amber-dawn.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}