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Stories I've Told
by Frances Cherry
(Number 15 in the ESAW mini series)

Now publishing a book of poetry for the first time, Frances Cherry has already published seven novels and two books of stories as well as numerous stories in anthologies, on radio and in school journals. She is a creative writing tutor who now lives in Kilbirnie, Wellington, after many years in Paekakariki (and other places).

She finds people and their behaviour (particularly if it is rather bizairre) fascinating.
Love, death, lost love and humour. These poems are the down-to-earth stories from a writer who has experienced it all (just about).

Reviews

Frances Cherry is a novelist and short story writer and this is her first book of poems. She is a creative writing tutor who lives in Wellington. Like most creative writing teachers, there are tinges of artifice in these and sometimes the seriousness of some of them just doesn't hit home. Like 'Comrade Birchie' for instance. On the other hand, there's very little humour in these. 'Those who were part of my life' is better, an interesting way of expressing memory/old friends, etc. Often the worst of life's experiences turn into the worst of poems unless sculptured in a masterly manner. I find a number of these a bit flat, as if I have heard it all before but made in a new way. However, these all work in their own way, so there's no real loss of enjoyment. Just gives me an appetite to see Cherry's longer works; prose etc. There is some good storytelling ability there, with, I bet, the ability to pull some surprises. These are worth the read.  Trevor Reeves Southern Ocean Review
 

TITLE               Stories I've Told
AUTHOR         Frances Cherry
PUBLISHED    2007
CATEGORY    Poetry. Number 15 in the ESAW mini series.
FORMAT         Paperback
EXTENT           A6, 24 pages
ISBN                1-86942-090-X    978-1-86942-090-1
PRICE              NZ  $5

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