Rosi Beech
Rosi Beech has published widely on all aspects of children’s literature. In 1996, her first poetry collection, Provisions of Light, was published by OUP (Oxford Poets series) under her previous name of Tessa Rose Chester. She has won prizes in the Blue Nose Poets and Bridport competitions, with work anthologized in Making for Planet Alice (Bloodaxe 1997) and elsewhere. Recent poems have appeared in The Interpreter’s House and The Frogmore Papers, and three poems were included in Razzamatazz and Other Poems (Leaf Books, 2006). She lives in a tiny cottage overlooking the glorious Cardigan Bay in South West Wales, where she works as a shamanic and Reiki healer with her partner Keith.
Was published in -
Razzamatazz & Other Poems
Poetry Anthology
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Format: A5 44 Pages
ISBN: 1905599-27-7
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The Leaf Books Short Poetry Competition 2006 invited entrants to submit poems up to sixteen lines in length on any topic imaginable. 525 poems were received on subjects as diverse as love, jazz, the internal monologue of a captive orang-utan and, in the first-prize winning ‘Tundra’, the plight of an obscurely-realised and unnamed refugee.
The competition was judged by prize-winning poet Sheenagh Pugh. This eminently readable anthology houses thirty-seven selected entries by both previously published and first-time poets.
Ukraine and Other Poems
Poetry Anthology
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Format: Demy
90 Pages
ISBN: 9781905599-38-7
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Ukraine and Other Poems -
there is an old soviet train
running through communities
of communist orchards
and the family planters
remain towns away
bussing each day
to plough and tow
the potato
the seed….
Extract from winning entry ‘Ukraine’ by Julie Bolitho-Lee
Ukraine and Other Poems contains the winning entries from the Leaf Books Spring 2007 Poetry Competition. No fewer that twenty-nine triumphant verses about elderly fruit pickers and disappointing aunts, stolen daffodils and red dresses and every other topic in between nestle within these covers.
