Unseasoned Campaigner [Paperback]

InUnseasoned Campaigner, poet Janet Newman uncovers territory ripe for exploration. Juxtaposing the often-troubled realities of commercial farming with ever-unfolding family relationships, these beautifully crafted poems speak to blood, sinew, and sweat, as well as to matters of the conscience and heart.Unseasoned Campaignerdeclares the arrival of an exciting new voice in New Zealand poetry.Janet Newmanwas born in Levin. She won the 2015 New Zealand Poetry Society International Competition, the 2017 Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems, and was a runner-up in the 2019 Kathleen Grattan Awards. Her essays about the sonnets of Michelle Leggott and the ecopoetry of Dinah Hawken won theJournal of New Zealand LiteraturePrize for New Zealand Literary Studies in 2014 and 2016.Rare perspective on farming from an award-winning poet.