image from NZ electronic poetry centre
Lauris Dorothy Edmond (2 April 1924 – 28 January 2000), was a New Zealand poet and writer. Her first volume was being published when she was 51. After that, her writing led her many rewards, including the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship at Menton in 1981, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1985, the OBE in 1986 and an Honorary DLitt of Massey University in 1988.
She was born in Dannevirke and studied at Wellington Teachers’ Training College. As can be found on the plaque at the Octagon, Dunedin she spent the first year of her marriage in Dunedin in 1946. It was written in the second volume (Bonefires in the rain) of her autobiography.
As the same process, I went to look for the book in the library.
Like described in the article from NZ book council, this book is about:
…the story told is in many ways a conventional one, following an unchallenged pattern, in which the needs of children (eventually, five daughters and a son) and the career moves of a husband determine family life…
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