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Pat Borthwick
| Pat Borthwick lives in rural North Yorkshire. She has two full-length poetry collections, Between Clouds and Caves (Littlewood Arc 1990) and Swim (Mudfog 2005). Pat has been Writer in Residence for prisons, libraries, schools and hospitals as well as for a canal, a coalmine, a chalk cliff and a cabbage. She is a tutor for the OCA, a Hawthornden Fellow and a Bluenose Poet of the Year. For their joint 100th birthday, she and her eldest son took a night flight to see the Northern Lights – a rather impressive candle. |
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Outbox and other poems
Poetry Anthology
Price £7.99 + £1 p&p
Format: Demy
82 Pages
ISBN: 9781905599356
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Outbox and Other Poems contains the winning entries from the Leaf Books Open Poetry Competition that ran during the winter of 2006. The thirty poems within cover such diverse subjects as love and hate, boat-building and ghostly rats, dreamfishers, funerals and science classes. What unites them is their brilliance.
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.