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Ivy Alvarez reads Disturbance

| Disturbance
Ivy Alvarez's Disturbance (Seren Books, 2013)

Ivy Alvarez writes:

I have this strange compulsion, so I’m following it.

Disturbance is a novel in verse that chronicles a multiple homicide, a tragic case of domestic violence, where a family is gunned down by the husband and father, and features poems in a kaleidoscope of voices from all the characters involved.

It took me seven years to write. I wonder how long it’ll take me to read it aloud?

This Sunday, 5 April 2020, I’ll begin reading from Disturbance, at 3 pm NZDT (UTC +13) on Instagram Live, and then every Sunday, same time, until I finish the book. instagram.com/ivyalvarez

If I can figure it out, I’ll also link it with Facebook Live. (No guarantees, though.)

Trigger warnings for strong content and language.

Grab your Disturbance from a local bookstore.

Or here: https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/disturbance

Or here:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1781720878

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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020

| Diaspora

Johanna Emeney, in an interview with the New Zealand Books Council, mentions Ivy Alvarez’s poems, which appear in the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020.

As Jack has done in previous editions, you’ve given some poets more than one poem. How so?

Some of the poems seemed to belong as a ‘set’. For example, Chris Tse’s ghost poems and Ivy Alvarez’s poems based on Filipino sayings.