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Aline P’nina Tayar’s Lingua Franca
The Hubris Review By Janet Kenny “The book begins in Sydney, Australia at the end of the lives of her mother and father. Tayar has temporarily returned from abroad to attend to the…
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The Fortunate Deception
Singing & Drowning By Janet Kenny “I have a song to sing-oh. Boy, do I have a song! I was a young, inadequately prepared singer, fresh from New Zealand and it was the…
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Coloring Outside the Rhymes
Singing & Drowning By Janet Kenny “I am basically a formal poet who ignores the rules. Music has always dominated anything I do, and music is something I can’t escape in poetry. As…
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A Provincial New Zealand Childhood (or, What I Did in the War): Part IV
Singing & Drowning By Janet Kenny “It was definite. My father’s good sister had declared the state intermediate school, where she had taught, to be unsuitable for me. Instead, I was to be…
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A Provincial New Zealand Childhood (or, What I Did in the War): Part III
Singing & Drowning By Janet Kenny “All my conscious life there was talk of war. Later, it was The War Effort. My mother went once a week to help out at the Patriotic…
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A Provincial New Zealand Childhood (or, What I Did in the War): Part II
Singing & Drowning By Janet Kenny “The house I grew up in had the atmosphere of a dark bruised place. I do not know whether that was unusual in those times. My mother…
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A Provincial New Zealand Childhood (or, What I Did in the War)
Singing & Drowning By Janet Kenny “When I was young, I believed that nothing ever happened to people in small towns. Only growth and pain. Life and death. I traveled around the world…