News from the Arts Foundation on new Janet Frame Collection

Gorse is Not People: New & Uncollected Stories by Janet Frame - a new collection of 28 short stories by Janet spanning the length of her career. 
None of these stories has been published in a collection before, and more than half are published for the first time.  
Due out – August 2012 from Penguin NZ.


And Pamela Gordon advises: "This brand new collection of 28 short stories by Janet Frame spans the length of her career and contains some of the best she wrote. None of these stories has been published in a collection before, and more than half are published for the first time in Gorse is Not People. The title story caused Frame a setback in 1954, when Charles Brasch rejected it for publication in Landfall and, along with others for one reason or other, deliberately remained unpublished during her lifetime. Previously published pieces have appeared in Harper's Bazaar, the NZ Listener, the New Zealand School Journal, Landfall and The New Yorker over the years, and one otherwise unpublished piece, 'The Gravy Boat', was read aloud by Frame for a radio broadcast in 1953. In these stories readers will recognise familiar themes, scenes, characters and locations from Frame's writing and life, and each offers a fresh fictional transformation that will captivate and absorb."
The cover has been designed, the proofs have been read, and the book is off to the printers.