Blum Books
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 will include a series of paintings and works on paper made between 2016 and 2019.
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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, June Treister, 2019
Back cover image: Black Hole over the Arctic, June Treister 2019