Description
When her father Major John Jarmain died in the Battle of Normandy on June 26, 1944, Joanna Weston was six years old. A book of Jarmain’s poetry was published in 1945 and Joanna read the poems again and again over the years in an attempt to get to know the man behind the words. Her own book of poems, A Summer Father, gives us a poignant portrait of her absent father and her own war-marred childhood.
About the author
Joanna M. Weston is a full-time writer of poetry, short-stories, children's books and reviews. She has published over 2,000 poems in magazines, journals, and anthologies across North America and internationally. Her publications include a popular middle-reader, Those Blue Shoes, and a volume of poetry, A Summer Father. She lives in Shawnigan Lake, BC, with her partner, two cats, multiple spiders, a herd of deer, and two derelict hen-houses
