Imogen
By: by Joanna Margaret Paul
Publisher: Small Bore Books
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Whanganui, New Zealand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 27
ISBN-13: 9780473509866
Subjects: Infants; Death; Poetry; Newborn infants; Bereavement; New Zealand poetry; Fine books; Specimens; Rare books; Limited editions; Private press books; Letterpress printing
Description: In 1976 Paul gave birth to a second daughter, Imogen, but the infant had a heart defect and died later in the year at Auckland's Greenlane Hospital. In the following months Paul ceased drawing and painting and wrote a series of poems as a lament for her daughter. This was published as Imogen by Hawk Press in 1978 and won the PEN Award for the Best First Book of Poetry that year."--Jill Trevelyan. 'Paul, Joanna Margaret', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2018. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/6p1/paul-joanna-margaret (accessed 27 February 2020)
Notes: Poems

"[Dedicated] to Imogen Rose, February 28-December 9, 1976, farewell brave heart arohanui"--Page [5]

Place of publication is from the publisher's website: https://smallborebooks.com/

"This book was first printed in 1978 by Alan Loney at Hawk Press in a limited edition of 300. This edition was recreated in 2019 by Small Bore Books in a new edition of 300 copies"--Colophon

"Cover designed and letterpress printed by Fernbank Studio, Wellington in response to the original Imogen cover.  Small Bore Books would like to thank Brendon O'Brien at Fernbank Studio for his work and advice"--Colophon

"In memory of Jane Paul"--Colophon
Table of contents: title: A pregnant woman --; title: Sleep into Rose Imogen --; title: On the green garden ... --; title: Those distinct pinks ... --; title: To Patricia --; title: For Bill & Marion --; title: Lies in the incubator ... --; title: Probe, prove, probing, probable, probity, proboscis, I probe ...--; title: & curls, finger curls ...; title: Where were we Descartes? --; title: Omens --; title: Blessings on Morandi who made a shape to part the space ... --; title: Imogen --; title: Blood never reaching the lungs ... --; title: Let her life stand --; title: A grove of puriri & ti/cabbage tree beyond a pine in surveillance --; title: This is the cup of your heart ... -- Mother, mother of mothers ... --; title: Imogens --; title: Lumen of our days ... --; title: Thursday-Thursday delivered of a baby & again delivered of a baby ...  --; title: Chords --; title: Small --; title: At his right side at his right hand ... ---; title: O my white one