Julie Bolitho-Lee
Julie Bolitho-Lee is originally from northern Michigan in the United States. Much of her inspiration for both writing and painting arises from the multifarious seasons of the north of North America. Julie graduated from Alma College with a BA in English and she intends to pursue a graduate career in composition and creative writing. She aspires to teach university students in the ways she was taught by her professor and mentor, Dr William Palmer of Alma College. She has been published in East Tennessee University’s Aethlon and Michigan State University’s The OffBeat. She currently lives in Oxford, England with her husband, Kwok, and their two dogs, Janie and Elu.
Was published in -
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.
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.