Susan Groom
Susan Groom was born in Lancashire and studied English at Northern Counties College, Newcastle before becoming a primary school teacher. She has lived in Cumbria and now lives at Whitstable in Kent with her husband, Dave – her ‘Ideal Reader’! She is retired from teaching and has recently completed a two-year Creative Writing study course at the University of Kent, before moving onto the Diploma for the following two years.
She enjoys jazz singing, walking by the sea, patting other people’s dogs and theatre going. Her favourite poets are Sylvia Plath, Carl Sandburg, Simon Armitage and Wendy Cope. She has written several short stories but poetry is her lifelong passion. She has had poems published in Night Train and the Norwich Writers Anthology. She is currently working on publishing a second book of poetry and intends to keep writing for ever.
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.