Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Poetic Obituaries: [Berta Freistadt] wrote plays, poetry,

short stories, and a novel, with work published in anthologies, journals and magazines on both sides of the Atlantic. She worked as an actor, director and performance poet in venues throughout the UK, and won prizes and commendations for her poetry.

Berta's collection Flood Warning, which explores the nature of love and identity, was published by Five Leaves in 2004, and more recently her poems have appeared in the magazine MsLexia and in Grey Hen's first publication of poems A Twist of Malice: Uncomfortable Poems by Older Women (2008).

from The Guardian: Berta Freistadt

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