JANE BLAIKIE

 

Excerpts from a Reading Journal, 2012

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jane Blaikie completed an MA at the IIML in 2012 with a poetry folio titled ‘The Neurology Department’. Its opening section is about the Wellington artist, designer and gallerist Dave Kent who was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease in 2009. Lines in the poems in italics are taken from notebooks that Dave has used to communicate with by writing after he became mute.