Jane is an Australian-based New Zealander and has previously published an anthology of poems about women in sport and female gladiators (gladiatrices) called The Power of Women. She also uses poetry and storytelling in her work with those at the end of life.

Jane Daoud

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Struck

At first
I wasn't aware
I was doing lectio divina
with Thomas Hardy.
    – Colossal inconsistency –
Savour, say the monks,
words
like honey on the tongue.
No one ever says
spit.
Spit your vengeance
your triumphant
judgement
at the God
you thought
would never betray you.