The Intimacy Bus
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Intimacy Bus
By (Author) Janet Charman
Otago University Press
Otago University Press
13th March 2025
New Zealand
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)
Physical Properties
Paperback
84
Width 150mm, Height 230mm
Description
In The Intimacy Bus, award-winning poet Janet Charman reckons with some of life's heaviest traffic: bereavement, grief, ageing, loneliness, gender, sexual identity, power and inequality. Along the way, the collection gathers up encounters with friends and strangers, and reflections on matters as various as Korean telenovelas, classic films, personal memories, 'modern life', real estate, 'sex treats', companion animals, a favourite hairdresser, finding joy, a grandmother's politics and the rapper Psy.
Shorn of sentiment, direct and uncompromising, Janet Charman's The Intimacy Bus arrives as an irrepressible affirmation of love, life and lesbian desire.
Author Bio
Janet Charman is a complete original, utterly distinctive in voice and content. She received the Best Book of Poetry Award at the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Awards for Cold Snack. At the 2023 New Zealand Ockham Book Awards her 2022 collection, The Pistils (Otago University Press), was longlisted for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry.
