Night's Glass Table

The poems in Night’s Glass Table are tight and emotionally powerful, and deal with themes such as death, grief and love. Zelas chooses her words with care, and her poems are always eloquent and evocative. She demonstrates a sound use of conventions, and her writing is well-crafted and technically excellent.


Karen Zelas lives in quake-struck Christchurch. A former psychiatrist and psychotherapist, she has been Fiction Editor of Takahē for the last five years. Her poetry has been widely published within New Zealand, including in Landfall, Poetry New Zealand,



Takahē, and broadcast on radio; also Australian ezines Snorkel and Eclecticism and recently blogged by Interlitq (UK). Several anthologies contain her work. She was editor of Crest to Crest: Impressions of Canterbury, prose and poetry (Wily Publications, 2009) and her historical novel Past Perfect was published by Wily in 2010. She is married with children and grandchildren.