Larksong Static: Selected Poems 2005-2020

Literature & Fiction

Malone, Martin

Poetry

Hedgehog Poetry Press

This eclectic collection of poetry explores the fragility and impermanence of all that is precious in this world - ourselves, our loved ones, our homes, our familiar places, our countries and more generally life on planet earth and beyond. Considers the challenge of achieving a balance between holding onto and honouring the past and letting it go to enable us to live well in the present and value what we have in the here and now. Acknowledges the need to endure struggles, accept our mortality and embrace both endings and new beginnings with hope. All expressed in a variety of forms - Villanelle, Fibonacci, Pantoums, Triolets, Concrete, Specular and free verse.

Before it's too late

Thomson, Sarah

'Psychopathogen' explores the effect of exceptional times on unexceptional people: a reluctant schoolboy; a shielded grandmother; a middle-aged married couple; a pair of home-working parents and their children. This is not life as we know it. Nigel Kent's sometimes witty and always moving poems show us how life under Lockdown has been transformational, changing our routines, our relationships, our values and our perspective on the world. Underpinning them all is a profound sense of loss: life will never be the same again.

Psychopathagen

Kent, Nigel

"Reading the poems together is like stepping into a forest where each tree has a highly individual character. Patricia M Osborne does really well to conjure up such a playful range of voices that feel different yet enhance one another, and her shifts in stanza length add brilliant disruption." <ul> <li>John McCullough - Poet (Shortlisted for the Poetry Costa Award 2019)</li> </ul> "Patricia M Osborne writes of the natural world with keen observation and a sensitivity for the trees and flowers, birds and animals that fill it. In this collection we learn of traditions, mythology and lore, factual information and fantasy, mingling in one glorious cornucopia. Patricia casts her true poet's eye over it all, and clothes it in images to enchant the reader." <ul> <li>Alison Chisholm - Poet and Poetry Columnist on Writing Magazine</li> </ul>

Taxus Baccata

Osborne, Patricia M

Zoë Sîobhan Howarth-Lowe's collection, is a special and quite beautiful debut from an exciting new poetic voice. 'I have Two Hearts' is a collection of poems exploring the complicated emotions, the simplicities of moments and the intricacies of motherhood.

I Have Grown Two Hearts

Howarth-Lowe, Zoë Sîobhan

"Julie Stevens speaks with the true voice of feeling, wrestling hope out of pain and celebrating every small instance of joy. Her experience of long-term illness draws her into many unlit areas of emotion. She illuminates these dark places with subtle cascades of metaphor. She is a genuine poet."- Steve Logan, musician and poet "It's not just the striking images, the startling turns of phrase that are so arresting within Julie's poetry - it's the bold and candid detailing of her battle with illness that make the poems impossible to put down. And despite the sometimes painful subject matter, these are poems of such resilience and bravery that they are energizing and empowering to read and full of an unextinguishable vitality."- Anna Saunders, Founding Director Cheltenham Poetry Festival "'I am here and I am holding the dark.' This collection is a glimpse behind the everyday movement we take for granted. Julie Stevens has identified the wolf in the darkness and here, in these poems where brave lays down next to broken, she is willing to step outside, no matter how difficult that is. There is no sugar coating here; the truth weighs heavy and the wind mocks but the honesty etched into every line reveals itself, as a resilience that will not be simply blown away."- Damien B Donnelly, poet and podcast producer "Throughout this collection, we're granted a rare and precious intimacy - drawn time and again into the poet's vulnerability and fragility, yet these poems sing with fierce strength and determination. This is a powerful, incisive and devastatingly honest collection; Julie's gentle voice pierces the reader time and time again, but she never shuts us out. We're drawn with her through each difficult moment and through each soaring dream. It's exquisite."- Anne McMaster

Step Into The Dark

Stevens, Julie

Honey Dew

Beaney, Darren J

There is a deceptively simple depth and truth to Kate Young's poetry that speaks of an old soul, but one that can almost divine the streams of common feeling that are cascading below the surface. A Spark in the Darkness is exactly that, a burgeoning brightness of life in a time of horror, sorrow and pain. Simply put, Kate Young is an observer as much as she is a witness and her debut collection is utterly compelling.

A Spark in the Darkness

Young, Kate

Unmuted

Are You Listening?

McEvoy, Gill

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