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Oversteps News 56 April 2019
It’s always a pleasure to introduce a new poet, and this month Oversteps has pleasure in publishing a first collection by Patricia Leighton, from Worcestershire.
Hidden by Patricia Leighton (ISBN 978-1-906856-83-0), price £8 plus p &p.
The collection includes reflections on such subjects as how a blind man describes rain, how dusk creeps in to swallow day, the power of words and the poet’s meeting with a six hundred million year-old woodlouse in the form of a trilobite.
In other news
Oversteps poets continue to bring in the prizes in competitions. Here are a few that I’ve noticed recently:
Christopher North was highly commended in the Café Writers’ competition 2018
Mark Totterdell was highly commended in the Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival poetry competition
Tony Watts was awarded a joint third prize in the Barnett Open poetry competition,
a commendation in the Sentinel Literary quarterly poetry competition, and
was one of four shortlisted in the Littoral Press Nature Poetry Collection competition
Rose Flint won the Littoral Press Nature Poetry Collection competition
Ian Royce Chamberlain had three poems shortlisted in the Plough poetry competition
Congratulations to Teignmouth Poetry Festival for another splendid weekend of events. The team at Teignmouth, who work so hard and creatively, includes Oversteps poets Ian Royce Chamberlain and Jennie Osborne.
Coming soon
Carol DeVaughn will be reading from her recent collection, Life Class, at Ver Poets in St Albans on 12th April
Graham High has an exhibition of bronze portrait sculptures of modern poets, along with poems on the subject of, and in the style of, each poet. The exhibition will be at the White Box Gallery, Blackheath, 13th-28th April, including Easter.
Carol DeVaughn will be reading at Enfield Poets at the Dugdale Centre on Saturday 4th May
Jenny Hockey will be launching her Oversteps book, Going to bed with the moon at the South Yorkshire Poetry Festival on Tuesday 21st May
Jenny Hockey will launch her Oversteps book at the Sheffield’s Sheaf Festival on Friday 24th May.
Please put Saturday 6th July in your diaries now, so that you don’t miss this year’s Oversteps Day at Ways with Words.
In these difficult times, keep sane by reading lots of poetry.
Alwyn
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