Perfectly Imperfect

Perfectly Imperfect explores inheritance, choice, and the long work of becoming.Moving from Forgotten to Remembered to Reimagined, this debut poetry collection traces a woman's movement through family myth, migration, love, loss, land, lineage and the complicated work of finding her own voice.Born in Canada to Croatian and Ukrainian immigrants and now writing from Aotearoa New Zealand, Marijana Sabljic Alexander draws on lives and landscapes spanning generations and continents. From inherited silence and red-lined maps to rising tides, desire and chosen love, these poems explore the forces that shape who we become - and what happens when we begin to choose differently.Intimate and expansive, tender and unflinching, Perfectly Imperfect asks what it means to belong: to a body, a family, a place, a history and ultimately to ourselves.These are poems about what we inherit, what we remember, what we reclaim and what we reimagine. Because to be human is not to be flawless. It is to be whole.