Janice Warman

These are the Things we Have Lost

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'...I've learned/ There are some things you can fake: / Blondeness, wit, intelligence: / Marriage.' In her debut poetry collection, These Are the Things We Have Lost, Janice Warman chronicles a journey from her South African childhood to the landscapes of motherhood with unflinching honesty. From pregnancy 'high on hormones and Pellegrino', to second weddings, these poems capture intimate moments of love and loss. With a journalist's precision and a poet's sensitivity, Warman's voice moves between continents and decades. A celebration of life's joys and an elegy for what inevitably slips through our grasp. 'An absorbing series of poems about loss and family, facing unflinchingly what one poem calls 'All the little stations of my loss.' Warman has the rare gift of expressing pain and suffering, with rage at death and disease and the irretrievability of the past, and yet remaining life-enhancing: a positivity that comes about through verbal life and descriptive richness in poems like 'Spider Web'. To care so eloquently about loss and suffering is to exalt their opposites by implication. This is an outstanding and compelling book.' - Bernard O'Donoghue, Author of 'Farmers Cross' (Faber, 2011), shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize 'Janice Warman's voice is at once arresting and assured in these compelling poems about family and childhood, abuse and loss, as well as love and renewal. A powerful debut that packs a punch, offers redemption, love and, ultimately, hope.' - Mara Bergman, Poet and Author of 'The Disappearing Room' and 'The Night We Were Dylan Thomas' (Arc Publications)

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fly on the Wall Press
• Seitenzahl: 84
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 91g
• ISBN-13: 9781915789525
• ISBN-10: 1915789524
• Artikelnr.: 75251613

Autorenporträt

Janice Warman is an award-winning writer of YA fiction, non-fiction and poetry, based in Crowborough, East Sussex. She is a financial journalist, and a creative writing tutor at Share Community, Clapham Junction, for disabled adults. Her poetry has been published in magazines in the UK and South Africa, in The Hey Nonny Handbook, the women's literary survival guide (Harriman House), in Ballet, a poetic and photographic tribute to her mother (Susakpress/Spiralbound) and in English textbooks in South Africa. She is a past winner of the Kent & Sussex Poetry Society Folio Competition. Her journalism career spans The Guardian, The Observer, the Financial Times and BBC Radio 4. Her YA novel The World Beneath, the story of a young boy growing up under apartheid (Walker Books/Candlewick, endorsed by Amnesty International) was a winner in the Children's Africana Book Award in the US. Class of 79 (Jacana) was her tribute to her three fellow journalism students of the seventies who risked their lives to destroy apartheid.