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 A Source Of Strange Delight Poems about the Brontes
A chapbook of twelve poems featuring poets for whom a connection with the Brontë family, the Parsonage and Haworth has special meaning. With twelve original illustrations.
ISBN 978-0-9552952-8-7
Available now from Grey Hen @ £4 + 50p p&p
Booksellers discount 25% In this new anthology, a follow-up to Grey Hen’s popular A Twist Of Malice, older women poets take a shrewish look at the trials and tribulations of modern life.
Poems for trying circumstances Edited by Joy Howard ‘ Journey from hell? Unwanted company? Wish you weren’t here? Home horrors and workplace blues? Stuck for words…?
Life as we have to live it, and how poetry can help.
‘A collection of poems by turns tough, tender, bittersweet, eagle-eyed and laugh-out-loud funny: a chorus of confident women’s voices from the contemporary world.’ Tiffany Atkinson ’This anthology is an A-Z of women poets whose formidable eye and instict for pithy observation make this anthology one to treasure. Required reading for all ages but especially for the young-and-grumpy-in-heart. ’This world’, say these poets,’is not a better place. Deal with it’ they say. Then they show us how. Read it!’ Penelope Shuttle £8.00 + p&p UK: £1.25 + 50p each additional book. Europe: £2.50 + £1 each additional book (Booksellers discounts available on request) An anthology of contemporary poetry, with original artwork, celebrating our love of birds and the enrichment that encounters with them bring to our lives.
This anthology explores all aspects of ageing, from losing parents to confronting the inevitability of ourown deaths. Here are poets facing up to life, with a recognition of its transience,absurdities, triumphs and disasters, in the spirit of taking it on the chin.
New poems about birds Edited by Joy Howard Foreword by Andrew Motion ‘ Here are beautiful word pictures of birds, giving new and different insights. Without birds, our lives would be enormously diminished and this anthology will hopefully encourage people to appreciate them more and support their conservation. Lovely illustration’ Dafila Scott
‘A chorus of new poems on well-known birds – wry, witty, representational but above all, celebratory, reminding us of the fierce, almost unnameable delights offered by these winged creatures. This wide-ranging selection highlights their beauty, vulnerability and constant need for habitat protection….a book to read and savour’ Katherine Gallagher £8.00 + p&p £1 (50p from the sale of this book will be donated to the RSPB)
Poems about ageing by older women Edited by Joy Howard Foreword by Michele Hanson ‘Electric, formidable, challenging, witty, sombre, enduring, heart-felt, tender, reflective, valedictory poems. This is an anthology to see you through the bad times, to celebrate the good times. Be these poets stricken with grief or still dizzy with love after all these years, they remain sharp-eyed, sharp-witted, gutsy and dauntless in their many different approaches.’ Penelope Shuttle
‘Brave, thoughtful, humorous…the poems in this book explore with honesty and clear-sightedness the gains and losses – and the surprises – inherent in the process of ageing.’ Carole Satyamurti ‘This fine anthology has given women permission to say exactly what they feel about every aspect of the whole business of ageing. These poets aren’t fools: they know what they’re talking about, and they tell it straight. They have the courage to face the hard things; they have the grace and skill to write without self-pity and yet with the true voice of feeling. It is seriously good poetry: fresh, and well-crafted. It’s the fruit of accumulated wisdom and of long life-experience - brave writing, full of love and subversive wit and lyricism. You can trust such poems.’ R V Bailey Ten years in the life of a lesbian-come-lately. Excitement, bewilderment, heartache, frustration, love both true and false, but above all a feeling of coming home…
Coming out and carrying on ISBN 978-0-9552952-0-l ‘It was a frightening and fabulous time, coming out in the feminist 1980s; falling in love, writing poetry... you had to have been there. However, if you’ve only read about it or done it in your Women’s Studies class, then this wonderful collection is the next best thing. All the pleasure - well, almost! - and none of the pain.’ Berta Freistadt
‘In poetry which is wry and witty a whole brave life journey is explored. Beginning with that mythical lesbian milestone ‘Coming Out’, the progress of love is treated to a beady-eyed scrutiny - although after the necessary scalpel comes an unsentimental but lyrical acceptance of ‘a dear concordance/and a priceless peace’. Whatever your niche in the spectrum of the human condition, these poems will make you reflect and smile.’ Kate Foley Available now from Grey Hen@ £6.50 + p&p £1.00
Order By Post (Cheque / Postal Order) A collection of work by 36 contemporary poets exploring the darker side of the female imagination. Here are poems that disturb and disconcert but also gleam with humour and delight in subversion. You will find plenty of familiar names, but also less well-known poets whose work deserves to be read more widely. There is something good on every page - be prepared to hide behind the sofa and keep the light on at night but also to be made to think, and to laugh out loud. There will be something in this book that will hit the spot for everyone who enjoys the power of poetry.
Uncomfortable poems by older women Edited by Joy Howard ISBN 978-0-9552952-2-5 ’Nothing mimsy about these poems by older women. Fierce, funny, disturbing and fairly vicious. Lovely.’ Michele Hanson, The Guardian ’..extremely enjoyable and thought-proving...the essence of the achievement is in raising some really serious and interesting issues while being entertaining. Beautifully produced too.’ ’Poems which stretch the mind...poetic edge and edginess.’ ’A handsome anthology...ought to be on some celebrity’s list of their Books of the Year...Put it on your Christmas list.’ Dilys Wood, Second lLght Network & ARTEMISpoetry
’A Twist of Malice is a tonic, a real pick-me-up, in all senses. I laughed, cried, giggled, chortled. A book for all seasons, for all reasons. Dip in and out or read in huge gulps. So many poems I wish I had written myself.’ Lyn Moir Available now from Grey Hen @ £8.00 + £1.25 p&p Order By Post (Cheque / Postal Order)
Off-beat but serious and moving "Funny, feisty" Available now from Grey Hen @ £3.00 + 50p p&p Order By Post (Cheque / Postal Order) |
Get Me Out of Here!
No Space But Their Own
Cracking On
Exit Moonshine
A Twist of Malice
Second Bite ISBN 978-0-9552952-1-8
