Grace Notes

Karen Gershon

Illustrated by Stella Tripp

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Like Gerda Mayer, Karen Gershon came to England as a refugee from Nazi Europe. Her poems on the cruel fate of her people — and especially of her own family in Bielefeld — were published by Gollancz in the 1960s and '70s, when they received widespread acclaim.

The ‘New Garland’ collection is made up of previously unpublished poems. They come from a body of work which she prepared prior to her death, under the title of Notes of a Heart Patient.

• The ‘New Garland’ Poetry Series, N^o 2
• Drawings by Stella Tripp
• Published in 2002
• ISBN 0904896072

‘With younger eyes I only saw
     the world as it affected me:
I looked at it for my own sake;
     old eyes are teaching me to look
with more humility and show
     the brute and brave reality’

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