During her time as New Zealand's Poet Laureate, Cilla McQueen worked on a project that explored a space between prose and poetry. It was published in chapters on the Poet Laureate website, and retitled Edwin's Egg & Other Poetic Novellas . This work is now published for the first time in hard-copy format, combining McQueen's evocative text with wonderful images from the collection of the Alexander Turnbull Library.