Publisher's Synopsis
What do you do when Christmas dinner is ruined by a family fight or your therapist wants to explore female friendship and it's making you uncomfortable? When you're stuck in a traffic jam outside Swindon in a car with no aircon during a heatwave? When a deceased loved one visits you years later in a dream or you have a meltdown while doing a big shop at the supermarket after work during the pandemic? In her second collection of poetry, Laura Connochie turns these memorable moments and more into poems.
Arranged over seven chapters - Generations, Nature, Writing, Pandemic, Heartscapes, Endings and Beyond - this contemporary collection is at once unique and universal, and often takes you in a direction you might not expect. Delve into sonnets, free verse and haiku on a range of subjects where pared-down but precise word choices reflect her day job as a (scissor-oriented) copyeditor. The collection also includes tribute poems inspired by well-loved poets such as Philip Larkin, Chen Chen, Anna Akhmatova and ee cummings. Laura Connochie is originally from Cornwall in the UK and now lives in Stroud in Gloucestershire. She's the owner and director of copyskates ltd, a writing, editing and training company, and is working on her third book, a spiritual memoir, which she aims to publish in spring 2024. Her first poetry collection, No Money in Poetry, is also available on Amazon, and you can read more of her poetry on Instagram @amusenut.
