How to Live with Mammals

Author(s): Ash Davida Jane

NZ Poetry

we love an underdog 
especially when it’s a whale we see ourselves in them
literally in them 
lounging in their cathedral of a mouth
just looking for love


All around us, life is both teeming and vanishing. How do we live in this place of so many others and so many last things? How to Live With Mammals is not a book of instruction but a book of reimagining and a book of longing. In these funny and often poignant poems, Ash Davida Jane asks how we might reorient ourselves, and our ways of loving one another, as the futures that we once imagined grow ever more precarious.


'Urgent, funny and tender: these poems shine.' —Louise Wallace


Product Information

Ash Davida Jane’s poetry has appeared in Mimicry, Sweet Mammalian, Starling, The Spinoff and elsewhere. Her first book, Every Dark Waning, was published in 2016 by UK indie publisher Platypus Press. She lives in Wellington, where she works as a bookseller.

General Fields

  • : 9781776564163
  • : Victoria University of Wellington Press
  • : Victoria University of Wellington Press
  • : April 2021
  • : {"length"=>["8.25"], "width"=>["6.25"], "units"=>["Inches"]}
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Ash Davida Jane
  • : Paperback
  • : 821.3
  • : 80