Jo Verity
Jo Verity started writing six years ago ‘to see if she could’. In 2003 she won the first Richard & Judy Short Story Competition with ‘Rapid Eye Movement’ and, in 2004, the Western Mail Short Story Competition with ‘The Experiment’. Her story ‘Carrying On’ was broadcast on Radio Four. She has had stories published in several magazines and anthologies.
Her debut novel Everything in the Garden (Honno) was published in June 2005 and she is working on her second book.
Jo recently gave up work as a graphic designer to write full time. She lives in Cardiff.
Leaf Books by this Author:
Think Like a Bee
and
Razzamatazz & Other Poems
Poetry Anthology
Price £6.99 (p&p £1 per book)
Format: A5 44 Pages
ISBN: 1905599-27-7
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The Leaf Books Short Poetry Competition 2006 invited entrants to submit poems up to sixteen lines in length on any topic imaginable. 525 poems were received on subjects as diverse as love, jazz, the internal monologue of a captive orang-utan and, in the first-prize winning ‘Tundra’, the plight of an obscurely-realised and unnamed refugee.
The competition was judged by prize-winning poet Sheenagh Pugh. This eminently readable anthology houses thirty-seven selected entries by both previously published and first-time poets.