Janet Frame

Janet Frame

About Janet Frame

Janet Frame (1924-2004) is New Zealand's greatest writer, and one of the most versatile poets. She won her homeland's top honours for fiction and non-fiction as well as for poetry. Her work also attracted international accdaim and continues to be translated widely. Her first book of poems The Pocket Mirror (1967) has never been out of print, and is that most rare of things, a bestselling collection of NZ verse. The End poem is from The Goose Bath collection published in 2006 by Random House (NZ), Bloodaxe Books (UK), and Wilkins Farago (Australia).
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