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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 intense hothouse and these privileged constraints flow narrative poems that capture the creative and cultural dislocation of travel, with its petty i...

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Janet Charman is one of New Zealand's most uncompromising women poets. This, her second collection of poetry, examines the less sentimental aspects of motherhood and the harsher realities of the battle of the sexes.

In this collection of poems, Janet Charman recalls her childhood, full of voices and stories, and in writing preserves bits of New Zealand's past as well as her own and her family's. The poems range over an era in all its colour and detail and should strike chords with many readers.

Set on the cusp of the 1970s-80s, Janet Charman's compelling new book centres on the disorienting experiences of a young woman newly arrived in. Charman has a laser-sharp eye for unsettling social cues, her outsider's vision of the city peristently challenged by encounters with an array of its remarkable inhabitants.

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Presents a collection of poems about suburbia, families, workplaces, and ordinary life. This work includes a section that explores the pains and pleasures of becoming a schoolteacher in midlife. Each poem shows the authors acute awareness of the sounds, shapes, colours around us and the way they are inhabited by our emotions.