Book of the Week: Oscar Mardell's Great Works consists of thirteen poems, each about a different freezing works in Aotearoa New Zealand. Satirising the colonial-pastoral mythologies through which the local landscape has often been interpreted, the collection gives due attention to an industry which, in spite of its centrality to the nation’s economic history, has remained conspicuously absent from its art and literature. Here, as in Bataille, ‘the slaughterhouse is linked to religion’: Great Works offers a darkly comic view of sacrifice and slaughter in ‘God’s Own Country’. 
>>Read Stella's review.
>>Read some of the poems. 

>>An animation and a reading.
>>Stella reviews the book on RNZ. 
>>The gothic slaughterhouse in New Zealand fiction. 
>>Neutral spaces. 
>>death of workers whilst building skyscrapers. 
>>Buy one of the 100 copies of this book.