The Judas Tree

The poems in this fine collection reveal Lorna Staveley Anker as New Zealand's first woman war poet. She was a "war widow" of WWII-a civilian casualty in the "unsung generation." This collection contains the best of her published poems and a substantial number never seen before. Edited with loving care by Canterbury poet Bernadette Hall, this is a collection about New Zealand's invisible history, the story of a seemingly ordinary life that proves to be extraordinary in the telling.