A collection of illustrated poems exploring what might have been, what almost was, and what could still become. The World As It Nearly Is drifts between the imagined and the real - a meeting place for memory, loss, and small wonders that resist explanation.
Made slowly, by hand and heart (and iPad), this book carries the trace of a teacher’s pen, a poet’s eye, and an illustrator’s restlessness. Every page balances word and image - each one orbiting around the question of how we hold the world, and how the world holds us.
Created in Aotearoa New Zealand, this work sits alongside its companion volume, The Branch That Grew, both nearly a decade in the making. Together they form a conversation about growth, grief, and the strange beauty of in-between spaces.
