Catherine Chanter
Catherine Chanter grew up in the West Country and went on to study English at St Anne’s College, Oxford. After several years’ working as a lobbyist in the UK and abroad, she re-trained as a teacher, specialising in supporting children with behavioural difficulties. She currently works at The Tavistock in London. Catherine has had several short stories published and written for BBC Radio 4, but her passion, both in terms of reading and writing, is poetry.
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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.
Naked Thighs and Cotton Frocks and Other Stories
Short Story Anthology
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Format: Demi 156 Pages
ISBN: 978-1-905599-40-0
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The following day, the six thirty-eight travellers were greeted with a second image, similar to the first but fully erect this time, and in colour. It could have been a cutting from the same source as the first … although, with this new, brighter male form buzzing in front of their eyes, few of the passengers could now recall that other, duller picture. Certainly it wasn’t the same man: Miss Taplow noticed that at once. Years of working as a legal secretary had given her an instinct for detail. – Extract from ‘Naked Thighs and Cotton Frocks’ by Anne Shewring
A series of mysterious and increasingly explicit photographs befuddles the reticent travellers on the 06:38, two very different men are forced to confront their fears and desires during a claustrophobic coach trip and an aging seventies TV star pores over his memories of the Golden Age to find out where the faults lie. All of the above and more besides loiter between the covers of Naked Thighs and Cotton Frocks and Other Stories, which contains the eleven winning entries from the Leaf Books 2007 Short Story competition.
