When We Remember to Breathe
when We Remember to Breathe
In 2019, When We Remember to Breathe by Michele Powles and Renee Liang was published under Lisette du Plessis’ own imprint, Magpie. To learn more about this gorgeous book, and to purchase, read on!
“These paragraphs fed each other, and they fed our families. Moreover, they turned the mess into magic.”
Through births, death, stumbles and first steps, Michele Powles and Renee Liang wrote.
And together these gifted writers – one an author, the other a paediatrician – achieved something remarkable: their conversation has fearlessly and charmingly laid bare the raw joy, beauty, discomfort and humour of modern motherhood. But beyond this, the exchange in When We Remember to Breathe is uplifting, positive testimony to what is important in life itself – what gives it meaning: the people we love, the challenges we face and the life we give.
When We Remember to Breathe is selling worldwide from here and in good bookstores around New Zealand.
Ebook: NZD $7
Print: NZD $25 + shipping
Print + Ebook: NZD $30 + shipping
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About the authors
Michele Powles
Despite training in law (or perhaps because of it), Michele has been a dancer, producer and writer across the globe, from India to Bosnia, Brazil to Edinburgh. She is now the mother of two small, loud boys, who seem equally obsessed with creating new worlds (mostly under their beds). Her fiction and non-fiction has been published widely and broadcast for radio both in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Michele was New Zealand’s 2010 Robert Burns Fellow. As an emerging screenwriter, she was one of eight film makers selected for New Zealand’s 2018 Film Up programme.
Renee Liang
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Renee Liang, a second-generation Chinese Kiwi, is a poet, playwright, paediatrician, medical researcher and fiction writer. She has collaborated on visual arts works, film, opera and music, produced and directed theatre works, worked as a dramaturge, taught creative writing and organized community-based arts initiatives. She organises community arts events such as New Kiwi Women Write, a writing workshop series for migrant women. She contributes to The Big Idea, which links New Zealand’s arts community. Renee has written, produced and toured seven plays. In 2018, she was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the arts.