Many members know that Janice Warman, our Vice Chair, has These Are the Things We Have Lost, her debut poetry collection, coming out in January with the award-winning Fly on the Wall Press.
‘Exploring the complex landscape of apartheid-era South Africa through a feminist lens, this collection promises to be a powerful literary contribution to understanding personal and political memory.’
She has her first reading from the book on Thursday 17th July with The Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Collective in Cape Town – 6.30 UK time. All welcome, with an Open Mic after.
Date: 17 July 2025
Time: 19:30 SAST [18.30 UK time]
Meeting ID: 842 8414 8131
Passcode: poetry
To pre-order These Are the Things We Have Lost, follow the link to the official Fly on the Wall press website here: These are the Things we have Lost | flyonthewallpress
We hope to see you there!
Janice Warman is an award-winning writer of YA fiction, non-fiction and poetry, financial journalist, and a creative writing tutor at Share Community for disabled adults, based in East Sussex. Her poetry has been published in magazines in the UK and South Africa, in The Hey Nonny Handbook, the women’s literary survival guide (Harriman House), in Ballet, a poetic and photographic tribute to her mother (Susakpress/Spiralbound) and in English textbooks in South Africa. She is a past winner of the Kent & Sussex Poetry Society Folio Competition.
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