Inside back Jacket Flap 'Assembled by two of the leading authorities on Mansfield's work, this will be the definitive collection of her non-fictional writings for a long time to come. Newly discovered poems and prose sketches take their place alongside more familiar pieces as Mansfield the professional writer is at long last revealed in all her engaging and rich abundance.' Professor David Bradshaw, Oxford University Katherine Mansfield's poetry and critical writing collected in one volume for the first time This volume redefines Katherine Mansfield as a critic, translator and poet. Bringing together all of Mansfield's poetry (some 179 poems and several songs), her literary translations (including letters by Anton Chekhov as well as those of Dostoevsky to his wife), her witty, sometimes scorching, parodies and pastiches, her imaginative aphorisms, her many incisive and heartfelt reviews of the novels of the day, and her essays, including those for the little magazine, Rhythm, this collection attests to the enormous variety and distinctiveness of the non-fiction writing that Mansfield produced, some of it unpublished until this edition. For the first time, Mansfield scholars and devotees can read all of Mansfield's non-fiction work, which expands considerably on previous partial editions of her poems or critical writings. Arranged chronologically, and with perceptive notes and a General Introduction by two leading Mansfield scholars, this is, at last, the Edition that Mansfield deserves. Inside Front Jacket Flap: Gerri Kimber, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Northampton, is coeditor of the annual yearbook Katherine Mansfield Studies, and Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society. She is the deviser and Series Editor of the four-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield and the author of Katherine Mansfield: The View from France, and A Literary Modernist: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story. Angela Smith is an emeritus professor of the University of Stirling where she was Director of the Centre of Commonwealth Studies. She has published widely on colonial and postcolonial writing and is the author of Katherine Mansfield: A Literary Life (2000) and Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf: A Public of Two (1999) as well as the editor of Katherine Mansfield: Selected Stories (2002). Anna Plumridge is a postgraduate student at Victoria University of Wellington. Back Jacket: The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield Volume 1: The Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield, 1898-1915, edited by Gerri Kimber and Vincent O'Sullivan Volume 2: The Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield, 1916-1922, edited by Gerri Kimber and Vincent O'Sullivan Volume 3: The Poetry and Critical Writings of Katherine Mansfield, edited by Gerri Kimber and Angela Smith Volume 4: The Diaries of Katherine Mansfield, edited by Gerri Kimber and Claire Davison Cover image: Katherine Mansfield at her work table, Villa Isola, Menton, France. Baker, Ida: Photographs of Katherine Mansfield. Ref: 1/2-011985-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. Cover design: Michael Chatfield