Burning Bright

Days 8 – 31

For the second week of the Sealey Challenge 2022 I didn’t have time to do a review summary as well as reading a poetry book each day. The following is my reading list from 8th to 16th August:

Day 8: ‘Those Mothers of Gods’ by Rachel Bowers published by Fly on the Wall Press https://www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page/these-mothers-of-gods-by-rachel-bower

Day 9: ‘In the Quaker Hotel’ by Helen Tookey published by Carcanet Press https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=2423

Day 10: ‘Other Women’s Kitchens’ by Alison Binney, winner of the Mslexia poetry pamphlet competition 2020, published by Seren. https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/other-womens-kitchens

Day 11: ‘When the World Was Left in Pieces’ by Jennifer Copley published by Wayleave Press. https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/products/when-the-world-was-left-in-pieces-by-jennifer-copley

Day 12: ‘Scouse Brows’ by Madelaine Kinsella published by Wrecking Ball Press https://wreckingballpress.com/product/scouse-brows/

Day 13: ‘The Peregrine Falcons of York Minster’ by Carole Bromley published by Valley Press https://www.valleypressuk.com/book/143/the_peregrine_falcons_of_york_minster

Day 14: ‘A Small Goodbye at Dawn’ by Gill Lambert published by Yaffle Press https://www.yafflepress.co.uk/collections

Day 15: ‘New Light for the Old Dark’ by Sam Willetts published by Cape Poetry in 2010 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/apr/18/new-light-old-dark-willetts

Day 16: ‘Safe Metamorphosis’ by Otis Mensah published by Prototype publishing https://otismensah.com

Day 17: ‘The Little God of Damage Limitation’ by Aileen La Tourette, published by Live Canon.

Day 18: ‘While There is Hope’, by Karen Izod, published by Coast to Coast to Coast.

Day 19: ‘Ellipses’, by Maria McManus, published by Coast to Coast to Coast.

Day 20: ‘C+nto’, by Joelle Taylor, published by Saqi Books. This was the winner of the T.S.Eliot prize in 2021.

Day 21: ‘Impermanence,’ by Colin Bancroft published by Maytree Press.

Day 22: ‘After,’ by Mark Connors, published by Yaffle Press.

Day 23: ‘pandemonium’ by Andrew McMillan, published by Cape Poetry.

Day 24: ‘After the Riot’, by Neil Young published by Nine Pens Press.

Day 25: ‘The Caprices’, by James Byrne published by Arc Publications.

Day 26: A re-read of Wendy Cope’s ‘Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis’, Faber & Faber.

Day 27: ‘melt’, by Sarah Hymas published by Waterloo Press.

Day 28: ‘Builhe Suibhne’ by Seán Hewitt, illustrated by Amy Jeffs, published by Fine Press Poetry: a gorgeous edition of poems that first appeared in Hewitt’s prize-winning collection ‘Tongues of Fire’ (Cape Poetry, 2020). http://www.finepresspoetry.com/buile-suibhne—seaacuten-hewittamy-jeffs.html

Day 29: ’emblem’ by Lucy Mercer, published by Prototype.

Day 30: ‘The Storm in the Piano’, by Christopher Jones, published by Maytree Press.

Day 31: ‘How to Carry Fire’, by Christine Thatcher, published by Parthian Books.