The Way Back - Poems

Te Kotare Press, Pukerua Bay, 1981. A5 size booklet, 48 pages. Minor wear at top of spine, old sticker mark at top right of front cover, previous owner's name in pen at top of front endpaper.

The pains and joys - the humour too - of love and marriage, the loneliness of the housewife and mother, mental illness the solace of mysticism, the reveries of childhood - these are the main themes of these poems. Published only four years into Meg Campbell's poetry career, this slim volume reflects a startlingly individual voice. Readers who warmed to Campbells fearless honesty when her poems appeared in The Listener, Landfall and elsewhere will welcome this first collection of her work.