Poems based on public holidays and significant days in our history are included in Pistils, the 9th collection by Janet Charman. There are deeply personal works touching on the death of her partner of 40 years, and many thinking back to her childhood and her parents. But the winner of the 2008 Montana Book Award for Poetry also looks unflinchingly into the uncertain future. Pistils is published by Otago University Press.
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