Clare McCotter
Clare McCotter trained as a psychiatric nurse in Belfast in the 1980s. In the 1990s she did an Honours degree in English at the Queen’s University of Belfast. This was followed by an MA (Irish Literature Written in English) at the University of Ulster. She then did a PGCE at the University of Edinburgh before returning to the University of Ulster where she completed a Ph.D on Beatrice Grimshaw’s travel writing in 2005. Clare has published numerous papers on Grimshaw’s travel writing and fiction. She lives in Kilrea, County Derry.
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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.