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Oversteps News 46 March 2017
Another two Oversteps books have been published this month
Open after dark by Sue Proffitt (ISBN 978-1-906856-70-0), price £8 plus p&p.
This is Sue Proffitt’s first collection. Sue, who now lives in a coastguard cottage in South Devon, has previously worked as an actor, a teacher and a psychotherapist. Through her poetry she now explores the beauty and mystery of the more-than-human world, and our relationship with it.
The day on which I delivered Sue’s copies of her book to her also happened, by coincidence, to be the day she won first prize in the Teignmouth Poetry competition.
Sudden Arabesque by Christine Whittemore
(ISBN 978-1-906856-71-7
), price £8 plus p&p.
This is another first collection.
Christine Whittemore has lived in Italy, France and, for many years, the USA, and she has been published and won awards on both sides of the Atlantic. Christine is evidently fascinated by different poetic forms, and she uses a number of them to wonderful effect in this collection.
A few of the readings by Oversteps poets coming up in the next couple of months
5th April: Michael Thomas will be reading at Poetry Refreshed, Smokey Joe’s Café, Cheltenham.
21 April: Susan Taylor is organising a Poetry Slam at Café Culture in Totnes
5th May: Sue Proffitt will be reading at Café Culture, Totnes, in the evening
11th May: Richard Skinner will be giving a reading with Chris Southgate at St Stephen’s, Exeter, 7.30pm
15th May: Christine Whittemore will be reading at Cheltenham Poetry Festival at 7.00pm
17th May: Jane Spiro will be reading at The Poetry Centre, Oxford Brookes University at 1.00pm
18th May: Alwyn Marriage will be reading at the St Ives Festival at 7.30pm,
and from her novel, ‘Rapeseed’ at 5.00pm
19th May: Alwyn Marriage reading at the launch of a Stanley Spencer anthology in Cookham.
The books by Sue Proffitt and Christine Whittemore, as well as many other Oversteps books, can be purchased through the Oversteps website.
Because of the huge number of submissions we receive, both from new poets and from poets we have published before, we are not able to accept any new submissions at present. When I have caught up with some of the fantastic poets who are waiting for their work to be published, I’ll make it known that we are open for submissions again. I hope this does not disappoint too many poets.
best wishes
Alwyn
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