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TREE SPACE
Victoria University Press, 2014


Tree space is the vast mathematical terrain occupied by ancestral trees of a group of species. Between them the trees, some bushy and some stark, account for all possible ways in which species might relate to one another.

"...lucid works that engages the heart and the mind"


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Cover by Keely O'Shannessy

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B. tries to tell me something and I am only half listening

Well, it was just that I held him under.
I found him at the Sanctuary,
tripping about, clumsy, poisoned
most like. And I took him and
took him home and held him under
the water. Only I didn’t know he would struggle
and his little heart. I thought it was
the best thing for it, wrapped my hand
around his body and held him below
the surface of the water. I didn’t know
that under the pad of my thumb,
I would feel his heart drumming,
little heart, like fingers against glass.

Other poems from Tree Space available online
The baby is on the radio
How they came to privatise the night
Hitching alone for the first time



The first time I read through Tree Space in full, I found myself whispering lines aloud on the bus, to the disconcertment of my fellow passengers. I couldn’t resist: McMillan’s words simply beg to be read out. - New Zealand Poetry Society

Most of all, she renders her considerations through a technically assured and wide-ranging poetic filter. The technicality is deftly integrated: this is lucid work which engages with the heart and the mind - Takahe Magazine

Short, hard sounds embody in recollection the physical experience, which is given internal music by the judiciously manipulated syntax – memory made palpable in mouth, in the skull’s resonance, as well as in the ghostly mind - Landfall Review Online

Maria McMillan, author Tree Space takes the prize for Best Poem Titles...Maria McMillan and Louise Wrightson – author of Otari  take out the Green Prize for 'nature' poetry - Poetry 2014 with Greg O'Brien on Radio NZ

...exuding a tantalising simplicity of form and line yet embracing space that is sweetly fertile - The Poetry Shelf

Full and focused...Shrewd and robust - Otago Daily Times


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