Gosh I was hugely impressed and moved by this astonishing poetic achievement by Diane Brown
Essentially a 116 page memoir written entirely in verse Brown tells us of her family life and
at the same time paints a thoughtful picture of domestic life in New Zealand post Word War Two.
I was so captivated that I read it in one long sitting lasting several hours.And how wonderful that Otago University Press published it in hardcover - a bargain at $29.95.
About the author:
Diane Brown is the author
of two poetry books – Before the
Divorce We Go to Disneyland and Learning
to Lie Together; two novels – If
the Tongue Fits and Eight Stages of
Grace; a travel memoir, Liars and
Lovers; and a prose/poetic work, Here
Comes Another Vital Moment. She has received the Buddle Findlay Sargeson
Fellowship, the Janet Frame Memorial Award and the Beatson Fellowship, and in
2013 was made a Member of New Zealand Order of Merit for services to writing
and education. Diane lives in Dunedin with her husband, writer Philip Temple,
and runs her own writing school, Creative Writing Dunedin.
Taking My Mother to the Opera
By
Diane Brown
In bookshops now.
Hardback
with ribbon
ISBN
978-1-927322-15-4, $29.95
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