Mary Charman-Smith
Mary Charman-Smith was born in Worthing, West Sussex and has continued to live in this area all her life. As a child, she wrote poems that were included in childrens’ anthologies. Her interest in poetry writing was rekindled when she went to university as a mature student. Mary’s poetry has recently been published in newspapers and anthologies and she has started working on a collection based on images of the coast of southern England. ‘The Day is White’ is one of these poems. Most of Mary’s poems are about animals and the natural world and this reflects her other main interests: horses, dogs and walking in the countryside or coast.
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Ukraine and Other Poems
Poetry Anthology
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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.
