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In an era of growing international interest in women artists

Raiment powerful and influential figures inThe engaging memoir of a pioneering seventies woman poet Pioneering New Zealand poet Jan Kemps memoir of her first 25 years is a vivid and frank account of growing up in the 1950s, and of university life in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It tracks from an innocent Waikato childhood to the seedy flats of Auckland, where anarchic student life, drugs, sexual experimentation and a failing marriage could not keep her away from poetry. She became one of