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My book share is The Women Left Behind (which you can snap up from the indomitable @DandWpublishing) - thanks @AnaBooks, who has a damn good eye for a poem! I nominate @propermiss, @metaphrog, @Louiestowell and @followtheyellow
Pals who have read (and liked) The Women Left Behind, the boot is now on the other foot - today I’m begging for reviews! If you can bear to leave a cheery word on Amazon or Waterstones, I’d be insanely grateful (almost all sales are online so any boost = 🎉) Thank you!
Apologies for (another) me-filled tweet - but if you’d like to hear me (and many excellent poets) reading at the @DandWpublishing autumn showcase, please come along this coming Monday (21st) to the Poetry Cafe, London. There’s an open mic afterwards 🎤
A giveaway! If you would like to win @chrisriddell50’s live-drawn Mary Gulliver and a signed copy of The Women Left Behind (https://t.co/iun60OIZf3), follow and RT with your favourite forgotten or abandoned woman in literature. Winner picked next Sunday!
It’s @PoetryDayUK! And it’s PUBLICATION DAY for The Women Left Behind! Here’s sweary Mary, wife of Gulliver, who raised kids while Lemuel explored. Thank you again to @chrisriddell50 for the glorious illustrations (and to everyone for enduring poetry spam all month!) 🎉 📖 🎤
This year’s @PoetryDayUK theme is ‘truth’. In The Women Left Behind, I’ve tried to give tidied-away female characters a moment to be messy, demanding and truthful. This is Phebe from As You Like It, illustrated by @chrisriddell50:
IT IS THIS WEEK! So nearly @PoetryDayUK, when my poetry collection #TheWomenLeftBehind is published by @DandWpublishing. They’re from perspectives of women left stranded in well-known stories, and illustrated by @chrisriddell50 *pinches self* Here’s Louisa from Hard Times: