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Imogen

by Joanna Margaret Paul, Imogen Rose Harris, Brendan O'Brien, Alan Loney, Fernbank Studio, Hawk Press, Small Bore Books

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In 1976 Paul gave birth to a second daughter, Imogen, but the infant had a heart defect and died later in the year at Auckland's Greenlane Hospital. In the following months Paul ceased drawing and painting and wrote a series of poems as a lament for her daughter. This was published as Imogen by Hawk Press in 1978 and won the PEN Award for the Best First Book of Poetry that year."--Jill Trevelyan. 'Paul, Joanna Margaret', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2018. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, (accessed 27 February 2020)

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