Learning How to Count on the Fingers of Two Hands - Robin Moss - a collection of lyrical poems that are rich with observations of his environment and birds in particular. 'His work is understated and acute, unsentimental but not disheartened, intent on
‘Finding Poetry on the other side of love.’ Ellen Phethean, poet and novelist.
£10.00
Aftermaths - Mike Pratt - A collection of poems and prose pieces based on his intense observations of the environment and its creatures on the North Sea coast - particularly East Cleveland and North Yorkshire - during the pandemic when he was confined to the area. 'Exquisite prose, filled with pure truths, startling perception and unwavering love for nature. These poems will tug at the deepest part of you, reminding you what it means to be human.' Liz Bonnin President of the Wildlife Trusts
£8.50
Planets, Plants and the Taste of Salt is a work of shapeshifting, searching and loss, which firmly establishes May’s talent for delicate, musical, exquisite, exciting, powerful language and imagery. Her themes of water, fish, birds, darkness and light are strongly maintained throughout, but never repetitive. There are painful, moving poems within the pamphlet which address the poet’s experience of stuttering, which bear witness to illness, to grief and loss, to family history and heritage. May creates poetic dialogues between pain and experiences, fear and voice - between tongues that are silent and tongues that are sharp, linking the past and the present, instilling ideas of fixing and repair. Here is a work that is a journey through the senses - one that will truly help you “gather greater light than the human eye”. Jane Burn
This is Pauline May’s first pamphlet and her poems won’t leave you after the reading. It is a surge and swell of deep emotions in surreal images of earth, sky and sea, about childhood and parental relationships. She turns the emotions of memory into landscapes and then into metaphor and haunting images. Her use of language is as compelling and mysterious as a fish distilling oxygen from water. Mel McAvoy
£5.50