JENNY MCLEOD: A Life in Music
by Norman Meehan
(Te Herenga Waka University Press, $50)
"I was having a wonderful, marvellous, idiotic time ... if I was such a fool that I didn’t know all that, I needed to learn it.”
Composer Jenny McLeod created Prosaic Notes from an Unwritten Journalin 2016 for the annual Lilburn Lecture, an event marking the late Douglas Lilburn’s birthday. In this whimsical verse account of her life and career, she asked humorously, “Do I really have a ‘Voice’? Don’t ask me! To me I’m always me …”
