The Selected Poetry of Jeni Couzyn
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Jeni Couzyn is an internationally acclaimed poet. Her first book, Flying, published in 1970, launched a career that spans physical and mental geographies, from the lush tropical world of South Africa to the urban density of London to the vast landscapes of Canada. In nine books, in poems that are at once tough-minded and tender, we see the stretch of a woman’s mind over the territory of our collective lives and the account is chastening, exhilarating, and deeply moving.
Edited by Arlene Lampert and Rosemary Sullivan.
Poetry • 6 x 9 inches • PB 142 pages • 9781550965384
Jeni Couzyn was born and educated in South Africa, which she left in 1965, and has since become a Canadian citizen, although she lives in Britain. Her volumes of verse include: Flying (1970); Christmas in Africa (1975); Life By Drowning: Selected Poems (1985), and In the Slain House (1993). Couzyn edited the important 1985 anthology, The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets, and she also writes for children.
Arlene Lampert was, for many years, executive director of the League of Canadian Poets. It was at a party one evening at Arlene’s new condo in the Distillery District of Toronto that the current notion first surfaced … of creating a series of alphabet books for children.
“Jeni Couzyn’s poetry is natural and unique. It has real simplicity, the sort that makes every word electric, and gives everything a werid music, without a false note. Her deadpan accounts of horror come as unforced and as true as her plainsongs of love.” –Ted Hughes
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