It is said that in poetry, the unforeseen becomes the indispensable, something we hadn’t predicted suddenly becomes an inseparable part of who we are. So it is, too, with pain and hurt. The work of healing, and of poetry, is to open up spaces of possibility through the darkness of suffering. Judy Dinnen knows all this from deep within her professional work and in her very human soul. Her poems are flickering lights, insightful and humane.
The Rev’d Dr Mark Oakley, Dean, Fellow and Tutor, St John’s College, Cambridge
A new collection by Anna Maria Mickiewicz : Anna Maria Mickiewicz is an exciting poet who continues the great tradition of Polish literature that questions daily life in a photographic, almost surgical detail, as if seeing the world for the first time. Her writing contains a restless inner voice and questioning of society and, ultimately, of what it is to be human. Michael Brett.
The latest individual collection from Poetry Space: Celestial Heteroglossia by Eleni Cay, with cover design by Rosie Hancock.
The latest individual collection from Poetry Space: London by Mark Isherwood.
Moira Andrew has lived through many changing experiences and recorded them in her straightforward, and often humorous style. This collection is her testament to another major loss, that of her eyesight.
Available to pre-order: Locked Down: poems, diaries and art from the 2020 pandemic, edited by Susan Jane Sims – now available to pre-order.
Mapping Shadows is a first full collection for Christopher Delaney.
New release: A collection of poems written by the members of Nunney Poetry Workshop in Somerset, led by Moira Andrew.
Mark Sims, a young doctor was diagnosed with advanced skin cancer just before his 27th birthday. This is the story of his 23 month wrestle with the disease, his passion to raise awareness and funds for vital research and how he found love quite unexpectedly, while working through his bucket list. P.S. I have cancer will be published by Poetry Space in March 2018. Pre-order your copy now.
Christopher Delaney explore the universal themes of love, loss, identity and regret in a measured way, avoiding sentimentality. This is a debut collection.
Published by Eyewear 2016 ISBN 978-1911335 – 1-60 £5 ‘What will survive of us is love’
This debut collection from Andrew Scotson demonstrates the far reaching scope of his writing. There are personal poems here about family and the local environment, we get to meet some of the poet’s footballing heroues, Gazza and George Best and we are also taken further afield to the Jazz clubs of America, to Vegas, to Vancouver and to Pensylvania in 1850.
Fungus, pigeons, beetles, a dead gull; aspects of life that might go unnoticed are brought under the microscope by Susan Ironfield in this fascinating set of poems.
One for the children: Down the Plughole by Fiona Murphy and Michelle Last is just £3 in Poetry Space shop. Your little ones will adore this.
All the winning and commended poems in the 2015 competition brought together in a beautiful anthology.
Actor and poet, Jade Anouka’s first pamphlet collection was published on Valentine’s Day.
A brand new pamphlet collection from Margaret Eddershaw in support of Ibba Girls School in South Sudan. “This lively and witty collection shows that Margaret is a traveller who, in the tradition of great poets, has an extraordinary gift for finding a visual image or a spoken phrase which somehow conjures up a person, a place, a culture, a moment in time.” (John Bennington)
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Wendy Stern died earlier this year. This pamphlet contains a selection of her poems, dictated to her carers as she did not have the physical capacity to use a pen or a keyboard. The poems are uplifting, hopeful and accepting. Two poems, not in this selection will appear later in the 2016 competition anthology as they were commended by John Siddique.
This is a fourth collection by Elizabeth Rapp.
This beautifully illustrated collection is by Julia D. McGuiness who lives in Ellesmere Poet, Cheshire. Julia has written four books and this is her first collection of poetry.
A delightful collection of poems for children by Moira Andrew. Illustrations by Anna Popescu.
ISBN 978-0-9565328-9-3
Publication Date July 31st 2012
Normally retailing at £5.99 this collection can be yours for just £3 for the whole of the school summer holidays. Buy it for the children in your life.
Delightful pamphlet collection by Di Coffey. All profits to The Multiple Sclerosis Society.
A long awaited pamphlet collection by Indian academic, Prem Kumari Sristava
Be entranced by The Loveliest Vein of Our Lives – A Journey Through Brazil by Neil Leadbeater, from ‘a lover of the country and its people’. (Patrick Lodge)
A brand new collection for prize-winning poet, Roger Elkin focussing on his travels in Turkey, Greece, South Africa, Egypt and China. This is his eleventh collection.
Published by Upcity Books, 2014. ISBN 978-1-63068-425-9 Pamphlet 36 pages, stapled. £3.99 Aron Kirk is a composer, songwriter and poet from Derbyshire. He is currently working on his second pamphlet of poetry, as well as spending time in the recording studio working on his next instrumental album. Alabaster Diary is Aron Kirk’s first published collection of • Read more…
“A book of inner landscapes that dares the reader to delve further to reveal a greater understanding of the complexities of mental illness and beyond.” Eileen Carney Hulme
“Maureen Weldon uses her pen like an Impressionist painter’s brush, to sketch in the dark and light of life’s events, but always resting her pen finally on a faith built on love for the stars, the moon, the far-off mysterious things of our world.”
Gill McEvoy
Johanna recently launched Cardboard City at The Beverley Festival in Yorkshire, UK and was interviewed on Radio Humberside.
A gorgeous collection of poems from Anna Maria Mickiewicz
Profits from the sale of this book are going to Missing Link charity in Bath
The top twenty poems from Poetry Space Competition 2013 chosen by Martyn Crucefix. Poems by Dorothy Baird, Ama Bolton, Pat Borthwick, David Clarke, Margaret Eddershaw,Wendy French, Eileen Carney Hulme, David C. Johnson, Susan Latimer, Kaye Lee, Afric McGlinchey, Gwen Seabourne,Robin Muers, Anthony Watts and Janice Windle.
Some time ago Sylvia Perry spent seven days in hospital. This booklet collection contains the remarkable poems she wrote during this time along with others equally moving. With a stunning cover photograph by Justin Pumphrey this is a delightful collection to hold and to cherish.
Mike Lee began writing poems and stories as a child. Overcoming dyslexia he qualified as a teacher and then became a lecturer when he penned EL articles and several text-books. In 1985 he successfully completed a Sociolinguistic-research doctorate. Now retired, rather than creating academic texts he has time to be creative once again. Poetry Space is delighted to be bringing you this new booklet collection.
A sonnet sequence by Beverley Ferguson. Produced as a fundraiser for Bath Mind this title has raised over £200.
A first full and long awaited collection by Margaret Eddershaw £7.95
Fifty poets including Caroline Carver, Katherine Gallagher, Anna Maria Mickiewicz, Edel Wignel, Les Merton, Wes Magee, Alan Brownjohn and Lesley Saunders. This book explores a wide range of childhood war time experiences: sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, sometimes harrowing.
Ghanaian Poet Michael Somuah has performed his poetry in many parts of the world and has won awards for his work.
Brand new pamphlet collection by Jo Waterworth.
Words that Signify is a collection of poems selected from those submitted to Poetry Space international poetry competition. This open-themed competition received 122 entries on a wide variety of subjects, all carefully read and selected anonymously by Cheryl Moskowitz.
This book contains chapters written by individuals and practitioners who describe how they have used creative words in healing ways.
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Judge Rose Flint, Editor: Susan Jane Sims
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