Raiment These multiple strands are brought

These multiple strands are brought together for the first time in a wide-ranging

rich new book’ — North & South

especially Pākehā

intense domestic observations merge with the philosophical

Raiment These multiple strands are broughtThe engaging memoir of a pioneering seventies woman poet Pioneering New Zealand poet Jan Kemps memoir of her first 25 years is a vivid and frank account of growing up in the 1950s, and of university life in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It tracks from an innocent Waikato childhood to the seedy flats of Auckland, where anarchic student life, drugs, sexual experimentation and a failing marriage could not keep her away from poetry. She became one of