cold snack is an immensely readable collection, among the most accessible that well-loved poet Janet Charman has written. The book brims with poems of suburbia, families, workplaces, ordinary life. In the first section Charman explores the pains and pleasures (mostly the pains) of becoming a schoolteacher in midlife, ?rerouted back to class'?the fish-swim of routine, pedagogy and (teacher) truancy, parent?teacher interviews, assessment ?in the jelly sway of the kelp forest'. The second section, ?televisioner', is a single long sequence that views the over-confident 1980s from the unlikely |