These are the Things we Have Lost

A poetic memoir from an award-winning journalist tracing love, loss and the truths we dare to speak

'...I’ve learned/ There are some things you can fake:/ Blondeness, wit, intelligence: / Marriage.'

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 second weddings, these poems capture intimate moments of love and loss.

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.