Janet Charman
Janet Charman was born in Auckland, spent parts of her childhood in the Hutt Valley and New Plymouth and now lives in Avondale with her partner and teenage children.
Charman has published six poetry collections. Five of these with Auckland University Press: She wrote much of Snowing Down South (2002) during her 1997 University of Auckland Literary Fellowship. Cold Snack (2007) is her most recent collection.
Charman comments: ‘I worked as a secondary school teacher for seven years, until 2008 and this poem is dedicated, with great respect, to the educators who have allowed me to observe in their classrooms.
It is the opening poem in a longer sequence, which reflects on the mysteries of teaching and learning: Cold Snack, AUP 2007.’
