Notes
Lauris Edmond is one of New Zealand's most distinguished poets. Her career has been extraordinarily compressed. Although she was born in 1924, she did not publish her first collection until 1975. Since then nine major books have appeared. Her Selected Poems won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1985, and she had read her work at a number of international arts festivals and also university audiences in North America, Britain, Europe and Australia, as well as in her native New Zealand. This selection draws from all Lauris Edmond's collections published to date, and includes twenty new poems, previously unpublished or uncollected, to provide an invaluable introduction to this important poet.
