Like music, poetry can be a conduit between our feelings and the world. It's an active in-between space, a space within which to let words dance between our internal world and the world outside. This year she's a Grimshaw Sargeson Writer Fellow in Auckland - which is one of our most distinguished writer residencies. Mark Amery talks to Chloe Honum about some of the poems in her exquisite first book The Tulip Flame. The collection is available on Chloe's website.