Janet Frame (19242004) was one of New Zealands foremost modern writers, bestknown for her prizewinning novels and for the threevolume autobiography later adapted by Jane Campion into her film "An Angel at My Table". Janet Frame called poetry the highest form of literature because you can have no dead wood in a poem. Its attraction is abundantly evident in her novels where her already poetic prose intensely lyrical, heavily metaphorical is at times completely pared down to poetry. She published only one collection in her lifetime, "The Pocket Mirror" in 1967, but she never stopped writing poetry, allowing the manuscripts to accumulate in an old fibreglass bowl shed originally used as a bath for her geese. Her second, posthumous collection "The Goose Bath" (2006) was compiled from this treasure trove, but not published outside New Zealand."Storms Will Tell" is a comprehensive selection of her beautiful and thoughtprovoking poems drawn from both those books. Her poems illustrate the shape of Janet Frames life her childhood and later years in mental hospitals blighted by misdiagnosis of schizophrenia her travels around the world, including her time in England her life as a writer and return to New Zealand and, growing older and facing illness and death. There are love poems, meditations on mortality, flashes of humour and startling imagery. And always she celebrates the power of the human imagination. Also in 2008 Virago publish "Towards Another Summer", a previously...

Binding: Paperback;234 pages; Publisher: Bloodaxe Books; Classification: DCF; Weight: 488 g; Dimensions: 234 x 157 x 17

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