Chloe Balcomb
Chloe Balcomb is a performance poet and writer living in Sheffield. Her poems have been broadcast on radio and published in a wide range of magazines and anthologies including Poetry Life, Rain Dog and Inside Out. A winner of the Tom Roder Memorial prize for her collection The Road to Eastbourne and the Hilda Cotterill Memorial Prize, Chloe has also received recent commendations for the Virginia Warbey
and Poetry Can competitions. Recently, Chloe worked
with composer Katie Butler. Their composition ‘Footprints’ was performed at Leeds Lieder Festival in October 2007. Therapeutic writing is an essential part of her work, including a post as Writer in Residence for Sheffield Young Carers Project. Chloe performs regularly at number of Sheffield venues, including Runaway Girl.
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Standing on the Cast Iron Shore
and Other Poems
ISBN 978-1-905599-45-5
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looking for a man to make you whole.
Here are a hundred of them, perfectly formed.
These men will never let you down,
or give you a load of grief.
They’ll stay around.
Time and tide wait for no man.
So take one, quick.
They’ll love you like no other can.
Extract from winning entry ‘Standing on the Cast-Iron
Shore’ by Kathy Miles.
Standing on the Cast-Iron Shore and Other Poems
contains the winning entries from the Leaf Books Poetry
Competition 2008: they comprise thirty-three of the
most tantalising verses about iron men, deceptive
uncles, egregious myna birds and macadamia nut
steamers that you could ever hope to encounter.
The Leaf Books team was aided in the judging of this
competition by the poet Sheenagh Pugh.
