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In her debut poetry collection, These Are the Things We Have Lost, Janice Warman chronicles a journey from her South African childhood to the landscapes of motherhood with unflinching honesty. From pregnancy 'high on hormones and Pellegrino', to themes of love, loss and longing, these poems capture intimate moments of tenderness and rupture. With a journalist’s precision and a poet’s sensitivity, Warman's voice moves between continents and decades. A celebration of life’s joys and an elegy for what inevitably slips through our grasp.

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'Sometimes fierce, often fragile, Warman peels back the wallpaper and deftly fills the cracks in real life with twinkling notes that vibrate around the reader as they travel with her from blushing vicars to birdsong. These are the Things we have Lost is a mighty promising debut collection that offers a treasure trove of finely-crafted insight and Warman is definitely one to watch.' - Tessa Foley 'That the depredation of Alzheimer’s is conceived in the mother figure’s own hand, presumably in an early, lucid moment, lends the otherwise fulsome scene the sharpest of ironies.' - The Yorkshire Times

'Sometimes fierce, often fragile, Warman peels back the wallpaper and deftly fills the cracks in real life with twinkling notes that vibrate around the reader as they travel with her from blushing vicars to birdsong. These are the Things we have Lost is a mighty promising debut collection that offers a treasure trove of finely-crafted insight and Warman is definitely one to watch.' - Tessa Foley 'That the depredation of Alzheimer’s is conceived in the mother figure’s own hand, presumably in an early, lucid moment, lends the otherwise fulsome scene the sharpest of ironies.' - The Yorkshire Times 'These are poems at the still centre of a hurricane. Around them whirl leavings, regrets, illnesses, aging, longing, loss. Through all this, Janice Warman’s eye never loses its focus on what matters: truth, simply and directly held and told.' - Rishi Dastidar

Author Information

Janice Warman is an award-winning writer of YA fiction, non-fiction and poetry, based in Crowborough, East Sussex. She is a financial journalist, and a creative writing tutor at Share Community, Clapham Junction, for disabled adults. Her poetry has been published in magazines in the UK and South Africa, in The Hey Nonny Handbook, the women’s literary survival guide (Harriman House), in Ballet, a poetic and photographic tribute to her mother (Susakpress/Spiralbound) and in English textbooks in South Africa. She is a past winner of the Kent & Sussex Poetry Society Folio Competition. Her journalism career spans The Guardian, The Observer, the Financial Times and BBC Radio 4. Her YA novel The World Beneath, the story of a young boy growing up under apartheid (Walker Books/Candlewick, endorsed by Amnesty International) was a winner in the Children’s Africana Book Award in the US. Class of 79 (Jacana) was her tribute to her three fellow journalism students of the seventies who risked their lives to destroy apartheid.

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