wormwood, earth and honey

selected poems by Catherine Edmunds

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Catherine Edmunds worked for a couple of decades as a classical musician before switching careers to re-invent herself as an author and artist/illustrator. Her published stories and poems are embedded in the natural world and veer between fantasy and romance, with a dash of humour. Her artwork embraces such diverse themes as delicate portraiture and exploding beetroots. Catherine is married with three children and currently lives in North East England, between the grey North Sea and the windswept High Pennines.

This, her first poetry collection, is accessible but never trivial: warm, earthy, intelligent and – just when you begin to snuggle into the intimacy of it – spiked with fire and venom.

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red silk slippers

poems by Marilyn Francis

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Marilyn Francis weaves magic. In this, her first poetry collection, she dodges Manchester’s serious umbrellas, goes shopping for red rubber gloves, a green ball, pomegranates and a fish. She transports the reader into a world of shared memories and art galleries where the familiar is seen from an oblique angle. Turning the mirror on herself, she dissects the mole-like poet’s task with a wry smile and slips into a world where a fly is caught in the drip of a clock.

‘It’s only a pack of cards,’ says Alice, but all is not what it seems in this White Rabbit world of dreams.

Turn the pages and two old birds in owlish specs peep back from the depths of the floral chintz, a man fries an egg in the road somewhere off Oxford Street, and cows big as wardrobes dare you to cross.

As surreal as a de Chirico creation perhaps, but this is an accessible, welcoming book of real-world poems - as real as those red silk slippers from Thailand.

Cover artwork by Paul Francis

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