A reading from A Game of Swans, Janet Wainscott, Sudden Valley Press, 2023

‘The sampler’

‘The stationmasters’

‘She saw plesiosaurs’

‘The lagoon’

Janet Wainscott lives in Lincoln, near  Otautahi/Christchurch, and writes poetry and essays. Her work has appeared in takahē, Poetry NZ Yearbooks, Landfall, Catalyst and recent New Zealand Poetry Society anthologies. Janet won the poetry section of the NZSA Heritage competition in 2017 and the short prose section in 2019. In 2020 she was commended in the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine competition. 

Her first collection of poetry, A Game of Swans, was published by Sudden Valley Press in May, 2023.

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