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.

Author Biography

Janet Charman is a poet and a former literary fellow/writer in residence at the University of Auckland. She has published poems widely in Australasian journals and in anthologies, and is the author of Rapunzel Rapunzel, red letter, Snowing Down South, and Cold Snack, which won the Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry.