Unpublished Katherine Mansfield poems discovered

The Katherine Mansfield scholar Dr Gerri Kimber has discovered 26 unpublished poems by Katherine Mansfield in a Chicago library in the United States.

The poems, written during Mansfield’s “hedonistic period” 1909-10, were in an unpublished manuscript submitted to the publisher Elkin Mathews who published works by both James Joyce and Ezra Pound.

More information can be found from the following links:

Stuff news site:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/69330731/previously-unseen-katherine-mansfield-poems-discovered-in-us-library

Friends of the Turnbull Library blog:

http://www.turnbullfriends.org.nz/katherine-mansfields-hedonistic-period/

Issue 21 of Poetry Notes available now

The 21st issue of the newsletter from Poetry Archive of New Zealand Aotearoa is available now for download as a pdf.

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