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"Joanna Margaret Paul's tragic early death in 2003 robbed us of a major poet, the scale of whose achievement was only fragmentarily grasped even by her admirers. Bernadette Hall has worked through Paul's legacy of artist's books, small press publications and manuscripts to present her work in full for the first time." "Following a three-part structure that had been established by Paul herself in early notes towards a selected poems, Bernadette Hall gives us 76 luminous poems, most of which have never been published before. The poems track through from the 1970s, a scouring time for Paul with the disintegration of her marriage to the artist Jeffrey Harris, and the death of their infant daughter Imogen, to the late 1990s, a time of celebration and fulfilment. Through her own words we are given a unique insight into Paul's passionate engagement with life and love, with family, friends and community."--Jacket.