by Janet Frame
Cecil Day-Lewis is quoted on p79 (from ‘Newsreel’). Frame incorrectly credits Louis MacNeice.
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) is quoted on p54 (‘O Heart small urn’ from ‘The Walls do not Fall’).
T.S. Eliot is quoted on p264 and p376 (from ‘The Waste Land’).
Adrian Henri is quoted on p288 (from ‘Ingleside, 1963,’ in ‘The Mersey Sound,’ Penguin Modern Poets 10, 1967).
Henry Reed is quoted on p112 and p119 (from ‘Chard Whitlow’)
Rainer Maria Rilke quotations are variably from the J.B. Leishman translations and from collaborative translations by Frame and Brown. Quotations on p358 (‘you must change your life’ from ‘Torso of an Archaic Apollo’) and p360 (‘who has no house now . . .’ from ‘Autumn Day’) are from Rilke: Selected Poems translated by C.F. MacIntyre, University of California Press (1957).
Stephen Spender is quoted on p54 (‘Tears pouring from the face of stone’ from ‘The Vase of Tears’).
WORKS BY JANET FRAME
(with date of first publication)
1952
The Lagoon and Other Stories (stories)
1957
Owls Do Cry (novel)
1961
Faces in the Water (novel)
1962
The Edge of the Alphabet (novel)
1963
Scented Gardens for the Blind (novel)
1963
Snowman Snowman: Fables and Fantasies (stories)
1963
The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches (stories)
1965
The Adaptable Man (novel)
1966
A State of Siege (novel)
1966
The Reservoir and other stories
1967
The Pocket Mirror (poems)
1968
The Rainbirds (novel) aka Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room
1969
Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun (children’s book)
1970
Intensive Care (novel)
1972
Daughter Buffalo (novel)
1979
Living in the Maniototo (novel)
1982
To the Is-land (autobiography volume 1)
1983
You Are Now Entering the Human Heart (stories)
1984
An Angel at My Table (autobiography volume 2)
1985
The Envoy From Mirror City (autobiography volume 3)
1988
The Carpathians (novel)
1989
The Complete Autobiography (omnibus) aka An Autobiography aka An Angel At My Table
Posthumous titles:
2006
The Goose Bath (poems)
2007
Towards Another Summer (novel)
2008
Storms Will Tell (selected poems)
2009
Prizes (selected stories) aka The Daylight and the Dust
2011
Janet Frame In Her Own Words (selected non-fiction)
2012
Gorse is Not People (stories) aka Between My Father & the King
2013
In the Memorial Room (novel)
2013
The Mijo Tree (story)
For further information about Janet Frame’s life and work, please see:
Janet Frame Estate website: www.janetframe.org
Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame by Michael King (Counterpoint Press, 2000)
—— Excerpts from Brown’s Letters to Frame ——
[Bill Brown letter—November 1969]
[Bill Brown letter—December 1969]
[Bill Brown letter—January 1970]
The arrival of Janet’s muse, part man, part woman, part bird, part cat, made in a collage drawing game.
[Bill Brown letter—January 1970]
[Bill Brown letter—January 1970]
[Bill Brown letter—January 1970]
[Bill Brown letter—January 1970]
[Bill Brown letter—February 1970]
Frame comments in Letter: ‘Alas sir, the Peedauntal model as illustrated has no sex appeal whatsoever, unless of course the buckles fastening it to the leg are diamond or snakeskin. I had in mind something less like an attached bagpipe’.
[Bill Brown letter—April 11, 1970]
[Bill Brown letter—April 17, 1970]
[Bill Brown letter—April 26, 1970]
[Bill Brown letter—May 1970]
[Bill Brown letter—May 1970]
[Bill Brown letter—June 1970]
[Bill Brown letter—June 1970]
[Bill Brown letter—August 1970]
[Bill Brown letter—October 1970]
[Bill Brown letter—November 1970]
[Bill Brown letter—December 1970]
[Bill Brown letter—January 1971]
