These are the Things we Have Lost
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Fly on the Wall Press
Published:12th Jan '26
Should be back in stock very soon
A poetic memoir from an award-winning journalist tracing love, loss and the truths we dare to speak
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.
'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
ISBN: 9781915789525
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84 pages