MY NEW COLLECTION is available through Pindrop Press, an independent poetry publisher based in Glasgow with its editorial headquarters in France. The press was founded in 2010 by Jo Hemmant and taken over by editor and multi-award winning poet Sharon Black in 2016.

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​The poems from this collection developed out of my 2 year poetry residency at the School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick where I n helped to promote women in science. The inspiration and starting points for the poems came out of conversations I had with 13 female scientists about their incredible research.

 

The prologue for each poem offers a fascinating insight into an aspect of each research project. The poems themselves, are further broken down and presented in an unusual format which reflects a scientific study. Both the book and my award winning poem from the collection: 20 Ways to Skin a Spell have been nominated for the Forward Prizes. A permanant poetry trail showcasing 13 of the poems is due to be installed across campus this autumn:

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Mimicry in G Minor

It started on the cusp of a semilunar moon,
a migration of pain from coast to coast across
the tundra, where whispers grew wild and tangled
up in the twelve hollows of my throat.
In those scratchy nooks, clutches of
eggs hatched asynchronously
sounding like the flight calls of
old cell phone messages fading
with the sky. On examination,
with the also tangled stethoscope
every thump had a wingbeat and a melodious span
of muffles, clicks and tweets.
It had been a year since the funeral,
since we celebrated with sandwiches
and threw the crusts to birds,
but the days were still long and tapered
towards night, where bats not stars
helped us to find our way
to the swelling murmuration of
our hearts, also straining to take flight.

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