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Poets published by Oversteps Books

  • Jean Atkin Not Lost Since Last Time (2013)
    Jean Atkin’s poetry teems with images of the natural world, and is rooted in personal history.     
  • R V Bailey Credentials (2012)
    R V Bailey has had several collections published, some with her late partner, U A Fanthorpe. Her wit and sensitivity make this collection a delight.     
  • Michael Bayley The Art of the Handkerchief (2014
    “Michael Bayley’s first full-length collection reveals a poet of assurance and fluid deliberation.” Penny Shuttle.     
  • Denise Bennett Parachute Silk (2015)
    Denise teaches creative writing at Portsmouth College of Adult Education and she won the Poetry Society’s inaugural Hamish Canham prize. She writes in response to place, history and people, and describes her work as broadly spiritual.     
  • Charles Bennett Evenlode (2013)
    Charles Bennett, who leads the Creative Writing BA at Northampton University, has collaborated with musicians, photographers and artists, and was the first Director of the Ledbury Poetry.Festival.     
  • Rebecca Bilkau Weather Notes (2012) Instructions for a quiet life (2018)
    Born and bred in England, Rebecca now lives much of the time in Germany and her poetry sometimes wrestles with the difficulties, joys and challenges of this dualism. There is also much warmth and humour in her work.     
  • Patricia Bishop Saving Dragons (2000)
    Patricia Bishop was born and brought up in London but has lived in various places since – Cornwall, Kent, Surrey and now Gloucestershire. She has been published in magazines and anthologies and her work has been read on Radio 4 and various local radio stations. She has taken part in poetry festivals throughout the country.     
  • Anne Born Singing Granites (2008) with Glen Phillips
    Anne Born (1924-2011) was a poet and prize-winning translator. As well as writing twelve books of poetry and history, she translated over fifty books from Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. She was born in Sussex, educated at Copenhagen and Oxford universities and lived for many years in South Devon. She was the Founding Editor of Oversteps Books.     
  • Sue Boyle Safe Passage (2015)
    Sue Boyle’s rich and musical poetry sparkles with wit and wisdom. As well as being a prolific poet herself, she runs the Poetry Café in Bath, with its programme of readings and writing days     
  • Melanie Branton My Cloth-Eared Heart (2017)
    Melanie Branton’s success as a performance poet enlivens this snappy yet sensitive collection. Direct, personal and witty, My Cloth-Eared Heart will delight.     
  • David Broadbridge Something in Writing (2017)
    David Broadbridge is a poet and translator. On leaving Oxford University , he worked in education in Denmark and England. His book Treading the Dance, is a translation of Danish Medieval Ballads (Stacey, 2011), which was longlisted for the Popescu prize (2011) and described by Seamus Heaney as ‘beautifully produced and seriously enjoyable.’ He has been widely published in magazines and journals and a number of his poems have been set to music by Christopher Gower and Richard Elfyn Jones.     
  • Maggie Butt Ally Pally Prison Camp (2011)
    Maggie Butt has produced historical documentaries for BBC TV, and is now Associate Dean at Middlesex University.     
  • Caroline Carver Cannonball with feathers (2022) Three Hares (2009)
    Caroline Carver was conceived in New Zealand, born in England, lived in Bermuda, Jamaica and Canada, has travelled widely in Europe. She now lives in Cornwall. Her poetry is inspired by all of these countries, plus the fact that she has been a skier, climber and sailor. She won the National Poetry Competition in 1998.     
  • Ian Royce Chamberlain Vertigo & Beeswax (2017)
    Ian Royce Chamberlain is a member of Moor Poets and the co-founder of the Teignmouth Poetry Festival.
  • A C Clarke A troubling woman (2017) Fr Meslier’s Confession (2012) Messages of Change (2008)
    A C Clarke’s many awards include the Royal Literary Fund Mentoring Scheme (2005), the Petra Kenney Award (2005) and the Brownsbank International Poetry Competition ( 2007).     She has been short-listed for the Hamish Canham Award and commended in the National Poetry Competition. She is an active member of Scottish PEN, was the Makar for the Federation of Writers (Scotland) for 2007-2008 . She lives in Glasgow.
  • Ross Cogan The Book I Never Wrote (2012) Stalin’s Desk (2005)
    Ross Cogan studied philosophy at various universities. His poetry and essays are widely published in journals and he won a Gregory Award in 1999. Ross is the Creative Director of the Cheltenham Poetry Festival.
  • James Cole From The Blue (2002)
    James Cole has lived in the West Country for all of his life. He gets much of his inspiration from walking on Dartmoor and from the sea and coastline of the South West. He is a member of the Company of Poets and has had poems published in their anthologies.
  • Robert Cole Spool (2013)
    Robert Cole has lived in India, Mexico and France, and the cultures of these different countries are reflected in his poetry.
  • Chris Considine Strange Days (2022)
    After a teaching career in Bedford and several years spent in rural North Yorkshire, Chris Considine     mved to live in Plymouth, overlooking the Sound and now lives in Totnes. Some of her poems recall the Yorkshire countryside, others give tantalising glimpses of a Breton cottage she visits, while others shine a light on real people, past and present. Strange Days is Chris’s sixth collection.
  • Christopher Cook For and Against Nature (2000)
    As well as being a poet, Christopher Cook is also an artist whose work has been exhibited in the UK, USA, China and Japan. He has been a Visiting Fellow to the Ruskin School, Oxford, and Distinguished Visiting artist to CalSate University, USA; and he is now a Reader in Painting at the University of Plymouth.     
  • Rose Cook Taking Flight (2009)
    Rose is well-known as a poetry performer, not only in her native Devon but in venues all over the UK. She was co-founder of the poetry performance group Dangerous Cardigans and for a number of years co-presented Totnes’ One Night Stanza with Matt Harvey. Her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio Devon, and has appeared in magazines.
  • John Daniel Lighting the fire (2015) Skinning the Bull (2012)
    John Daniel is a poet and artist whose poetry has appeared in a number of anthologies. He has also written a memoir, Grown Up War.
  • Miriam Darlington Windfalls (2008)
    Miriam Darlington’s poems have appeared in journals and anthologies across the UK. She is an English teacher and lives in Devon where she also works as a freelance writer. She performs at open mic events, at festivals (including at Glastonbury) in a duo called ‘The Honeytongues’.
  • Will Daunt Running out of England (1999)
    Personal website: www.freewebs.com/willdauntpoetry
  • Sue Davies Split the lark (2021) Blue Water Café (2014)
    Sue Davies offers us tender but sometimes searingly honest reflections on human relationships, alongside sharp observations of nature.
  • Carol DeVaughn Life Class (2018)
    The poet looking at art, and the artist looking at the poet in her time as a life-class model.
  • Sally Festing Doors Opening (2016)
    Through her rich and varied poetry, Sally Festing opens doors to nature, to different cultures, to personal relationships and to art.
  • Rose Flint A Prism for the Sun (2015)
    In ‘A Prism for the Sun’, Rose Flint celebrates the interconnections between poetry, landscape and health.
  • Rebecca Gethin River is the Plural of Rain (2009)
    Rebecca’s poems have appeared in numerous publications, and she gives regular readings around Devon. She lives on Dartmoor, but also spends time in the Italian Maritime Alps, where her ancestors lived; and both of these areas are reflected in her poetry. She teaches creative writing to prisoners, and has written a novel.
  • Terry Gifford Al Otro Lado del Aguilar (2011) with Christopher North
    Terry Gifford lives on the opposite side of the mountain from Christopher North. Both of them have a deep knowledge of the area from many walking and climbing expeditions; and both of them are widely-published poets. Assisted by translators from the University of Alicante and from Madrid, Terry and Christopher have produced this bi-lingual book of poetry that focuses on this particular area of Spain.
  • Giles Goodland Littoral (1996)
    Giles Goodland has written several books of poetry, among them Littoral (Oversteps, 1996), A Spy in the House of Years (Leviathan, 2001) and Capital (Salt, 2006). He lives in London and is a lexicographer.
  • Cora Greenhill The Point of Waking (2013)
    Cora Greenhill lives in the Peak District and Crete, and inspiration from both is evident in this collection.
  • David Grubb An Alphabet of Light (1992)
    Poetry collections include     The Memory of Rooms, The Elephant In The Room, Out Of The Marvellous and It Comes With A Bit Of Song. Runner up in 2007 Bridport short story competition. Tutor of Creative Writing at University of Reading, the River and Rowing Museum, Henley on Thames, Norden Farm.
  • Charles Hadfield The Nothing We Sink or Swim In (2002)
    Charles Hadfield has published four poetry collections: Border Disputes (1995) and Inventing Waterfalls (1997) from Salzburg University Press, Reflections (1998) from Mirage Press with photographer Marina Wilson, and The Nothing We Sink or Swim In (2002) from Oversteps. After over twenty-five years working and travelling in France, China, Tibet, Madagascar, and several African countries, he emigrated to New Zealand where he now teaches at Auckland University. With his wife Jill he has published two travel books: Watching the Dragon, Letters from China 1983-85 (1986) and A Winter in Tibet (1988) both from Impact Books. His published teaching books include Writing Games and Reading Games, both from Longman, and the Oxford Basics series including Introduction to Teaching English (2008).
  • Oz Hardwick The Illuminated Dreamer (2010)
    Oz Hardwick is a York-based writer, photographer,     academic and occasional musician. As well as two well-received poetry collections, The Kind Ghosts (2004) and Carrying Fire (2006), he has published in international literary journals and performed throughout Europe and the US. He has also published widely on art and literary history and teaches at Leeds Trinity University College.
  • Jan Harris Mute Swans on the Cam (2020)
    Jan Harris enjoyed a rural childhood in Nottinghamshire and her love of the countryside shines through her poetry, which is expressed through the medium of a wide range of poetic forms.
  • Ken Head Prospero’s Bowl (2013)
    ‘Prospero’s Bowl’ is Ken Head’s first full collection. He lives in Cambridge and, as well as writing poetry himself, he is a reviewer of new poetry for Ink, Sweat and Tears.
  • Bill Headdon picardy.com (2003)
    Bill Headdon was born in North Cornwall, one of twelve children, he trained as a mason/bricklayer and now lives in Kent. An award winning poet, he has been published in magazines and anthologies with poets such as Hardy, Causley, Clemo, Hughes, MacDiarmid, Motion, and others. picardy.com is his sixth collection of poetry. He founded and edited LINKS Magazine, and has also been an assistant editor of Envoi.
  • Graham High The Range-Finder’s Field Glasses (2011)
    In Graham High’s new book we witness the clear eye of the artist as he addresses a wide range of subjects, in poetry that ranges from the  tender to the erotic.
  • Doreen Hinchliffe Substantial Ghosts (2020)
    Doreen Hinchliffe comes from Yorkshire, where she taught English for several years before moving to London. She has been published in a number of anthologies, as well as in such magazines as Acumen, Magma, Mslexia and Poetry News.
  • Jenny Hockey Going to bed with the moon (2019)
    Jenny Hockey received a New Poets Award from New Writing North in 2013, soon after retiring from a Chair in Sociology at the University of Sheffield. Many of the poems in this collection explore experiences of grief and loss, love and remembering, mirroring her academic research and writing in these areas.
  • Jenny Hope Petrolhead (2010)
    Jenny’s poetry has been published in a number of small-press magazines including Envoi, The Rialto, Obsessed by Pipework, and on Daisy Goodwin’s website. As well as poems about various relationships and family members, and observations of nature, this first collection also includes poems on such subjects as electricity and tarmac, a man whose greatest love is lavished on his car, and a pleasing section on food.
  • Susan Jordan I never think dark will come (2021)
    Susan Jordan, who lives very near to Dartmoor, has been a leading light in Moor Poets for some years. In this collection, she focuses on the light and dark of life in poems that are honest and illuminating.
  • Ann Kelley Telling the Bees (2012) Because We Have Reached That Place (2006)
    Ann is a poet and author: Paper Whites (poems with photographs) London Magazine Editions 2001; Because We Have Reached That Place, Oversteps 2006. Burying Beetle (novel) Luath Press, shortlisted for Brandford Boase Award 2005; Bowerbird (novel) Luath Press, Costa Children’s Book of the Year 2007.
  • Helen Kitson Tesserae (2003)
    Helen Kitson lives in Worcester. Her big breakthrough came in 1992 when her pamphlet Seeing’s     Believing was nominated for the Forward First Collection Prize. She writes poetry, short fiction, and a novel
  • Wendy Klein Mood Indigo (2016)
    Whether writing about family or distant countries and traditions, Wendy’s work is clear, sharp and harmonious.
  • Kathleen Kummer Living below sea level (2012)
    Kathleen Kummer has worked as a translator in London and Amsterdam, and taught in France, England and the Netherlands. The poems in this book reflect both Kathleen’s international experience and her acute observation of the everyday and familiar.
  • Marianne Larsen A Common Language (2006)
    Marianne Larsen was born in Kalundborg, Denmark. She has written several volumes of poetry, a number of novels, and books for children and drama. Marianne Larsen has poems translated into 15 languages, and volumes of her poetry has come out in England, USA, Sweden and Australia. She lives in Copenhagen.
  • Patricia Leighton Hidden (2019)
    Patricia celebrates the wonders of everyday life, revealing the beauty and mystery that lie beneath what we so easily take for granted.
  • Genista Lewes Cat’s Cradle (2007)
    Genista Lewes has published poetry in the small press, in anthologies and been heard on Radio 4’s ‘Poetry Please’. She has achieved success in competitions and reads her poetry in the West Country and elsewhere. Genista is a member of Fire River Poets group, based in Taunton.
  • Anne Lewis-Smith Every Seventh Wave (2006)
    Anne is a poet and journalist, who has edited five magazines over 30 years (including Envoi). Her first poem appeared in the Daily Mail when she was eight. Eleven collections of her poetry have been published. She has been involved with ballooning for forty years (receiving the Tissandier and Debbie Warley Awards); and she lives half-way up a mountain in Wales.
  • Dana Littlepage Smith What Love Requires (2020)
    Dana Littlepage Smith is an American who has lived with her husband in Devon for 20 years. She is a Quaker who has published four previous books and has collaborated with South West writers in Secret Rooms, a book against domestic violence. She spends as much time as possible outside in the healing presence of trees, seas and other creatures and in this new collection she celebrates love in its many forms.
  • Janet Loverseed The Shadow Shop (2016)
    Janet Loverseed is well-known in the literary circles of the North West. She has been published in magazines and anthologies and in her pamphlet entitled     The Under-Ripe Banana.
  • Mary Maher Green Darlings (2006)
    Mary’s first collection was shortlisted for The Forward Prize and used by The Hospice Care Trust in its training courses and her third,     Cold Flushes is used by California State University. She was a “WH Smith Poet” in schools and more recently was selected as an “Alternative Generation Poet” (Staple).
  • Antony Mair Let the wounded speak (2018)
    Antony Mair has written poetry all his life, while working in the legal profession and as an estate agent in France. His poetry touches on a wide variety of subjects, including slavery, gay identity, war, Muslim radicalisation and abuse in the Roman Catholic church. Above all, he believes that love brings healing and hope.
  • Alwyn Marriage festo (2012) Touching earth (2007)
    Alwyn has been a university philosophy lecturer, editor of a journal and chief executive of two international literacy and literature NGOs, and she took over from Anne Born as Managing Editor of Oversteps Books in 2008.
  • Marie Marshall I am not a fish (2013)
    This is a highly unusual collection, with a rich collection of characters including Mr Coelacanth (who claims that he is not a fish), the Lamb of Tartary, the Old-man-of-the-woods and the reputed imputed man.
  • Fokkina McDonnell Another life (2016)
    A clear eye and a musical ear make this first collection not to be missed.
  • Joan McGavin Passing Arcadia Close (2017) Flannelgraphs (2011)
    Joan McGavin is an Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Winchester and is on the committee of Writers in Southampton. Her poetry has appeared in Peterloo 3, Poems in Waiting Room and on Radio 4’s Poetry Please.
  • Denise McSheehy The Plate Spinner (2017)
    These graceful and ethereal poems are also full of substance. The language is so delicate that you may feel you can float on the poems, but you will find there is much of substance that will keep you returning to the poems again and again.
  • Moor Poets and Contemporary Markmakers Unearthing Dartmoor (2023)
    Devon’s Moor Poets and the artists, Contemporary Markmakers, spent two years working together on Dartmoor. They laughed and picnicked together, were drenched by relentless rain and enjoyed many warm sunny days. They witnessed the birth of a foal, heard countless cuckoos, met wild campers, stood silently among ancient stones, granite circles and burial cairns, walked the lengths of double and triple stone rows and followed mediaeval leats (human-hewn water courses running along land contours).     

    They traced Bronze Age reave field systems on Holne Moor that demarcate some of the earliest enclosures of farmland in Europe; sat within the ruins of a 13th century farming village at the Hut Holes; heard about the challenges of traditional upland farming and the rewards of meadow rewilding; and watched many moorland birds leaving and returning.As well as an exhibition of their work at the Dartmoor National Park Visitors’ Centre from 1st July to 29th September 2013, Oversteps has published this beautiful 120-page full-cover book of the poetry and art created during the project.

  • Andrew Nightingale The Big Wheel (2009)
    The Big Wheel includes visual poems (“Word death mandalas” and “Maps of my hermetic future”), a poem made from poker dice permutations, an…
  • Christopher North The Night Surveyor (2014) Al Otro Lado del Aguilar with Terry Gifford (2011) Explaining the Circumstances (2010)
    Christopher has published widely and has won a glittering array of prizes for his poetry. His work has universality, strength and wit; and even when he is being playful, his poetry sings with lyrical expression and an understanding of human nature. With his wife Marisa, Christopher facilitates the poetry writing retreats in his art centre, Almassera Vella, in Spain. Christopher has     also collaborated with Terry Gifford to produce a bi-lingual book about the area of Eastern Spain where they both live and write. Al Otro Lado del Aguilar is a collection of poems and conversations written by Christopher and Terry and translated into Spanish by a team of translators from Alicante University and Madrid.
  • David Olsen After Hopper & Lange (2021)
    David Olsen has been an energy economist, management consultant, and performing arts critic and now works as a poet and playwright. He has lived in Oxford, England, since 2002. In     After Hopper & Lange, David’s responds creatively to paintings by Edward Hopper and other painters, and to photographs by Hopper’s contemporary, the photographer Dorothea Lange.
  • Jennie Osborne Colouring outside the lines (2015) How to be Naked (2010)
    Jennie’s work has been widely published in national magazines, and she is well-known as a poetry performer, particularly in the South West.
  • Helen Overell Thumbprints (2015)
    Helen Overell brings to her poetry a keen eye, a musician’s ear and a keen intelligence.
  • Mandy Pannett Frost Hollow (2006) Bee Purple (2002)
    Mandy Pannett teaches English to pupils with a range of abilities and leads creative writing workshops in various parts of the country. She runs an Arts Cafe and is involved in working with local writing groups. Her work has been widely published in the UK, Europe, Canada and the States as well as on line.
  • Melanie Penycate Feeding Humming Birds (2009)
    Melanie lives in a small cottage next to a former village forge which is converted into an outlet for local art. She has been writing all her life, but became seriously involved after joining Wey Poets in Guildford, chairing this group for some years before moving to West Sussex. She divides her time between writing, teaching Psychology and the demands of the gallery.
  • W H Petty But Someone Liked Them (2009)
    W H Petty was formerly President of the Society of Education Officers and was appointed CBE for services to Education. He held a D.Litt from the University of Kent, and served as Chair of what is now Canterbury Christ Church University. His poems have been widely published and successful in a number of competitions and his previous collections have all been well received. He used to review poetry for several literary journals.
  • Glen Phillips Singing Granites (2008) with Anne Born
    Glen Phillips is a nationally and internationally published Australian poet, Adjunct Associate Professor of English at Edith Cowan University, Director of the International Centre for Landscape and Language and author and editor of numerous books. His poems and stories have been published in more than 50 journals, anthologies and newspapers around the world and translated into several languages. He has written both about and with the poet John Kinsella.
  • Sue Proffitt Open after dark (2017)
    The day this first collection was published also happened, by coincidence, to be the day that Sue Proffitt won first prize in the Teignmouth Poetry Festival.
  • Simon Richey Naming the Tree (2014)
    Although Simon Richey’s work has been published widely in magazines, Naming the Tree was his first collection. The language is precise and opens our eyes both to the wonders of the world around us and to the mystery and power of language.
  • Lynn Roberts A brush with poetry (2014)
    This is a book of poems about paintings in the National Gallery, London, accompanied by reproductions of the works, by courtesy of the National Gallery.
  • Mary Robinson Trace (2020)
    Mary Robinson’s poetry publications include     The Art of Gardening, her recent Alphabet Poems and two pamphlets, Uist Waulking Song and Out of Time. She grew up on an off-grid smallholding in Warwickshire, lectured in English Literature in Cumbria and now lives on the Llyn Peninsula in North Wales where she concentrates on writing.
  • Elisabeth Rowe Timewise  (2019) Taking Shape (2013) Thin Ice (2010)
    Elisabeth, who lives on Dartmoor, read English at Oxford and has worked as a teacher, a Citizens’ Advice Bureau Manager and a social worker. This poet has an uncanny knack of searching out the dark, as well as the light, aspects of humanity; and she enjoys writing satirical verse as well as her more serious poetry.
  • Ron Scowcroft Second Glance (2022)
    Originally from Greater Manchester, Ron has lived in the Lancaster area since 1985. After a career in teaching and several years in academic research he began writing poetry in 2006. He gained his PhD (JG Ballard and visual art) in 1997. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines, prize winners’ anthologies and literary websites. Ron won first prize in the Frogmore Competition (2020), joint first prize in the McLellan Poetry Competition (2013) and has been highly commended in The Yorkshire Open (2012) and by Magma (2011). His poems have been longlisted twice in the National Poetry Competition and have gained longlistings from Strokestown and Bridport. Ron is a founder member of Lancaster based April Poets.
  • Ann Segrave Persimmon (2014) Aviatrix (2009)
    Ann, who lives in Sussex, has been deeply influenced by the South Downs; but she is equally at home writing about France or Crete. Her observations are exact and illuminating as she paints her vivid word pictures.
  • Richard Skinner A brief poetry of time (2016)
    This book celebrates the immediate, the temporal and the eternal. The second half of the book comprises a series of sonnets on the theme of time.
  • Jane Spiro is a gateway (2018) Playing for Time (2015)
    Of Jane’s previous collection, ‘    Playing for time‘, Roselle Angwin wrote: ‘What shines through this collection is Spiro’s warm engagement with the world. Whether she’s talking about or to another human, reflecting on a church or a Norman castle, or speaking to a deer struck by her car, there’s a kind of clear-sighted perceptiveness that is always refracted through the lens of her humanity and compassion. Below that is a keen love for the world; one that is willing to be hurt by and to heal through the things of the world, without the author falling into sentimentality.’ Jane’s second Oversteps collection, ‘is a gateway‘, continues to tackle large issues, juxtaposed with cameos of intimate daily life. Often bringing to notice the horrors of war and discrimination, she also rejoices in the small beauties all around us.
  • Robert Stein The Very End of Air (2011)
    Robert Stein reviews contemporary classical music for Tempo and International Record Review. He reflects on, and in some cases converses with, such historical characters as Keats, Turner, Beethoven and Jesus Christ.
  • Anne Stewart The Janus Hour (2010)
    Anne is the founder of www.poetrypf.co.uk, which showcases many of the best poets writing today. She is also the Administrator for the Second Light Network. She won the Bridport Prize in 2008, and her poetry has been translated into German, Italian and Romanian.
  • Angela Stoner The Mazemaker’s Daughters (2016)  Weight and Flight (2010)
    Angela Stoner’s work is inspired by the landscape of Cornwall. She runs courses in the healing power of writing and has contributed articles to journals and publications on this subject. Her poetry has been commended in Second Light, Poetry Cornwall, Great Trees of Cornwall, St. Petroc’s and Poetry on the Lake competitions. She regularly performs her work at festivals, and her book,     Once in a Blue Moon, was published by Fal Publications in 2005.
  • John Stuart Word of mouth (2009)
    John Stuart chairs the Somerset poets’ group, Fire River Poets, and runs the Poetry at The Brewhouse series of readings and poetry cafés. He speaks French, German and Russian; and he is at present working on some translations of     Rilke’s Duino Elegies. John is a member of Fire River Poets group, based in Taunton.
  • Paul Surman Places (2018)
    Paul Surman’s first collection takes us to real and imaginary places, celebrating both the natural world and what it is to be a person in that world.
  • Michael Swan The Shapes of Things (2011)
    Michael Swan works in English language teaching and applied linguistics. His poetry has been published widely in magazines, and he has won a number of prizes
  • Diane Tang Sideways from the Shore (2012)
    Diane Tang started life in the US and moved to England in the 1970s. One of her unusual poems tells the story of a dog being put down for killing a baby; but such dark subjects are balanced with lively descriptions of the world and of human relationships.
  • Susan Taylor Temporal Bones (2016) A Small Wave for Your Form (2012) The Suspension of the Moon (2009)
    Susan Taylor farmed in Lincolnshire until she was 30 and now lives with her husband, the poet Simon Williams, on the southern edge of Dartmoor. Her writing draws its moods from the natural world – its shifting patterns and constant energy. Susan holds a Masters Degree in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University. She runs regular poetry workshops in Totnes, and received a Tarka Country Millennium Award for her collaborative performance project,     Reclaiming the Myths of Dartmoor.
  • Michael Thomas Come to Pass (2014)
    The collection is divided into series of poems around themes: Black Countries, Calls and Responses, The Gather-man, Shelter Poems and Exits. Many are sustained reflections, and several present an unusual slant on a familiar story or character, including     Jesus on the Strand, Feast of Jude and The Gather-man who prepares the soon-to-die. As well as his previous poetry collections, Michael Thomas has published three novels.
  • John Torrance Waterwheel (2013)
    This beautiful book moves from elegantly expressed sadness at the death of a best friend and the deepening dementia and subsequent death of the poet’s wife, to the joy of new life and love in partnership with the widow of the friend who died.
  • Mark Totterdell This Patter of Traces (2014)
    Mark combines a clear and precise observation of the natural world with a passion for language and words.
  • James Turner A Chance of Love (2015)
    James Turner stands in the long tradition of sonnet poets, but there is a surprising amount of variation in both the form and the content of his sonnets. James is already well-known as a performer in the West Country, but this book will bring him to the attention – and admiration – of readers far and wide.
  • Anthony Watts The Shell Gatherer (2011)
    Rural Somerset has been Anthony’s home for most of his life and he has no plans to leave it. He has won several prizes for his poetry and been published in magazines and anthologies.
  • Christine Whittemore Sudden Arabesque (2017)
    This collection ranges from fine sonnets, through a variety of other forms, to prose poems.
  • Simon Williams Inti (2016) A Place Where Odd Animals Stand (2012) Quirks (2006)
    Simon Williams began writing poetry at Loughborough University, where he worked under the influence of the two resident poets, Roger McGough and Pete Morgan. He has developed a poetic voice which flexes into disparate characters with subtlety, wit and affection.     He lives     on Dartmoor, performs regularly and often enhances his readings with acapella songs.