Liz Cashdan
Liz Cashdan was a secondary school English teacher for many years and now teaches Creative Writing at Sheffield University, for the WEA and in schools. Winner of several prizes and bursaries, her first poetry collection was Laughing All the Way (Five Leaves Publications 1995) and her most recent The Same Country (Five Leaves Publications 2006). In June 2007 she was Writer in Residence for the WEA in Yorkshire and Humberside. She has written poems about her travels to China, South Africa and Israel, and also gone back in history to Creswell Crags, the Bradford Wool Exchange and the Bialystok ghetto. www.lizcashdan.co.uk
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Dancing with Delsie
and other poems
ISBN 1-905599-49-3
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Haiku-Man to the rescue! And things along those lines. From South African odysseys to waltzes in wheelchairs via allegorical toasters, Dancing with Delsie and other poems contains all the splendidly multifarious winning entries from Leaf Books’ second
poetry competition of 2008.
her legs are like tree trunks
motionless and solid
‘let’s dance’ she said
with arms in the air
swaying like palm trees
when the wind blows
across a purple sea
Extract from runner-up ‘Dancing with Delsie’ by Sally James.
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.