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	Oddly Odd and Strangely Normal Collected Poems Volume III By June Treister Category : Poetry/Art Format : Paperback ISBN : 978-0-9927822-3-8 Size : 143 x 202mm Pages : 242 with 62 colour illustrations Publishing date: December 2019 Publisher : Blum Books Oddly Odd and Strangely Normal includes a series of oil paintings and works on paper made between 2016 and 2019. view paintings view abstract works on paper	These new poems by June Treister, as she enters her 90s, recount real and imagined nightmares, high street dramas and tales of the London art world, set against a backdrop of North London daily life, reminiscences of a wartime Suffolk childhood, the dishonesties of Brexit and the looming horror of the climate crisis. ‘Oddly Odd and Strangely Normal’ is the third published volume of poetry by June Treister and includes reproductions of recent paintings in which she has moved from still life, through abstraction, into the depiction of imaginary black holes. June Treister (née June Mary Scott) was born in Ipswich, Suffolk in 1927, daughter of Alice Joyce Lay and Basil Keeble Scott, grocer and provision merchant, whose father was headmaster of Wortham School. Although artistic she was unable to follow art as a career and entered the secretarial profession, first working in the Public Health Department of the East Suffolk County Council and afterwards the HQ of the Eastern Electricity Board. During WWII she was a member of the Girls Nautical Training Corps. In 1951 she moved to London taking a position as secretary to Maksymilian Treister who she later married, working with him as a company director in his electronics firm until their retirement in 2005. She has two children, a daughter Suzanne, an artist and a son Richard, a photographer. She lives in London. Cover image: Black Hole over Earth on Fire, 41 x 33 cm, oil on canvas, June Treister, 2019 Back cover image: Black Hole over the Arctic, 41 x 33 cm, oil on canvas, June Treister 2019
	The Clay of Ourselves Collected Poems Volume II By June Treister Foreword and introduction to the drawings by Adrian Dannatt Category : Poetry/Art Format : Paperback ISBN : 978-0-9927822-1-4 Size : 143 x 202mm Pages : 165 with 25 colour illustrations Published : May 2016 Publisher : Blum Books The Clay of Ourselves includes a series of drawings made between 2013 and 2015. view drawings	These new poems by June Treister, based on emails sent to her daughter between 2013 and 2015, recount tales of old and new friendships, characters from London's Reform Jewish community, local tap dancing classes and dreams of ghosts...weaving and shifting against a backdrop of WW2 Suffolk, 21st century life in the French Pyrenees and London's current rebuilding frenzy. The Clay of Ourselves, with a foreword by acclaimed writer Adrian Dannatt, is the second published volume of poetry by June Treister and includes 24 colour plates illustrating recent drawings made in London and the Pyrenees. June Treister (née June Mary Scott) was born in Ipswich, Suffolk in 1927, daughter of Alice Joyce Lay and Basil Keeble Scott, grocer and provision merchant, whose father was headmaster of Wortham School. Although artistic she was unable to follow art as a career and entered the secretarial profession, first working in the Public Health Department of the East Suffolk County Council and afterwards the HQ of the Eastern Electricity Board. During WWII she was a member of the Girls Nautical Training Corps. In 1951 she moved to London taking a position as secretary to Maksymilian Treister who she later married, working with him as a company director in his electronics firm until their retirement in 2005. She has two children, a daughter Suzanne, an artist and a son Richard, a photographer. She lives in London. Cover image: Still Life, June Treister, 1942 Back cover image: Axat Wild Boar Still Life, June Treister 2015
	How long have you been absent minded? As long as I can remember by June Treister Category : Poetry Format : Paperback ISBN : 978-0-9927822-0-7 Size : 148 x 210mm Pages : 136 Published : December 2013 Publisher : Blum Books	These poems by June Treister, based on over 4,000 emails sent to her daughter between 2006 and 2013 after her retirement, recollect people, places and events from a childhood spent in 1930s Suffolk, working life in post WWII London, British seaside resorts of the 1960s, travels in America, Africa and Europe from the 1970s onward and daily life in North London to the present day. Food and supermarkets, an enthusiasm of her late husband, the Polish Jew and French Resistance Operative, Maksymilian Treister (1912-2012), are a recurrent theme. Readers will delight in Treister's juxtapositions of the everyday and the absurd, the enchantment and distress of travel, and in a natural humour resulting from circumstances often beyond her direct control. June Treister (née June Mary Scott) was born in Ipswich, Suffolk in 1927, daughter of Alice Joyce Lay and Basil Keeble Scott, grocer and provision merchant, whose father was headmaster of Wortham School. Although artistic she was unable to follow art as a career and entered the secretarial profession, first working in the Public Health Department of the East Suffolk County Council and afterwards the HQ of the Eastern Electricity Board. During WWII she was a member of the Girls Nautical Training Corps. In 1951 she moved to London taking a position as secretary to Maksymilian Treister who she later married, working with him as a company director in his electronics firm until their retirement in 2005. She has two children, a daughter Suzanne, an artist and a son Richard, a photographer. She lives in London. Cover image: People in a Storm, June Treister, 1941
	A Languedoc Odyssey One couple's escape to the South of France By Paul Bridgestock Category : Non-Fiction/Travel Format : Paperback ISBN : 978-0-9927822-2-1 Size : 143 x 202mm Pages : 224 Published: June 2015 Publisher : Blum Books
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