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2 Deaths In 1 Night by Charman, Janet
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
2 Deaths in 1 Night by Janet Charman
$10.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Vivid witty poems set in all sorts of unexpected contexts - hospital wards, university lecture theatres, offices, bedrooms, kitchens, backyards. Janet Charman explores personal and sexual relationships, women's roles, and often quite ordinary things in a surprisingly new way.
At the White Coast by Janet Charman
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Making landfall among the inhabitants of a gritty metropolis, these poems transport the reader from the white coast of New Zealand, the Land of the Long White Cloud, to the shores of another country and another time. Set on the cusp of the 1970s and 1980s, Janet Charman's compelling poetry collection ce ...Show more
Cold Snack by Janet Charman
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Montana 2008 Poetry Award. This immensely readable collection is among the most accessible well loved poet Janet Charman has written. Her poems always emerge out of ordinary daily experience, the life with which her readers are only too familiar. By illuminating this world she broadens per ...Show more
End of the Dry by Janet Charman
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Janet Charman offers a compassionate but unsentimental vision of life in the suburbs and in the family, the banal and ordinary world of women and children. Her creation of vivid verbal fictions and her sense of comic detachment give these poems their appeal.
Rapunzel Rapunzel by Janet Charman
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good
A collection from an established poet of surburbia and the lives of women.
Snowing Down South by Janet Charman
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Much-published poet Janet Charman recalls her childhood full of voices and stories, thus preserving a part of NZ
Surrender by Janet Charman
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: very good
"As one of eight writers, poet Janet Charman was invited in 2009 to take part in a hectic, immersive literary residency in Hong Kong. Written out of this time of stimulating buzz, 仁 surrender chronicles the tensions, translations and literary crushes that ensue, with ever-present comedy. From this inten ...Show more
The Pistils by Janet Charman
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
The Pistils is a dispatch from the cusp of change. It appears at the severing of a 40-year relationship following the illness and death of poet Janet Charman's partner during the Covid restrictions. Here, she chronicles her experience with transition - to the digital age, to single life, to carbon neutr ...Show more
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