"How are we to survive our own lives? Therese Lloyd looks around her with eyes wide open. Her poems create a lyrical pathway to sustain us along with other animals, as fiercely and as fondly as Ariadne's thread. 'We construct our worlds in this way, ' she says. And there, among so much that can be underestimated or unnoticed, she puts her finger on an alternative strength and beauty in things.--Bernadette Hall. Other Animals is the powerful and provocative first book from one of New Zealand's most exciting new poets. Therese Lloyd's poems have appeared in a number of print and online publications including Sport, Landfall, Hue & Cry, the AUP series New Zealand Poets in Performance, Jacket2 and Turbine. In 2007 she was awarded the Schaeffer Fellowship to spend a year attending the acclaimed Iowa Writer's Workshop. Several cities and jobs later, she now lives in Paekakariki with her husband Lee"--Publisher's information.