Reading The Signs - Freegard Janis Batemans Key Features • National Parks

Key Features • National Parks • Points of interest • Terrain shading • Tourist Routes • Quick-find index Scale: 1:1

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Reading The Signs - Freegard Janis Batemans Key Features • National ParksThe poems in Janis Freegards new collection take their starting point from the poets daily ritual of reading the tea leaves while writing in the Ema Saik room in the Wairarapa. This leads to unexpected discoveries about the world around her, from spider visitors to the writing room and a papyrus fine gecko skin in the nearby wildlife sanctuary, to news of the ancient bdelloid rotifers that defy natural disasters and the recently extinct amphibians