NEWS

launch & signings

Wrap up warm for

the launch of IGLOO

on Saturday 19 November

any time between 2 and 4 pm

at the Children’s Bookshop

Lindley, HD3 3JF

for igloo cake & tea and

a reading with questions at 3 pm.

Please let me know if you're coming.

Other places IGLOO and I will be if you can’t come to Lindley are below.

It’d be great if you could just come and create some interest!

1. Sat 26th November, 12 – 2pm
at Waterstones, Huddersfield

2. And for rest of Sat 26th and Sun 27th
at Page Bookshop, Brighouse, as part of
Brighouse Christmas Fair.

3. Sat 3 December, 10.30 am – 2.30 pm at the Winter Fayre,
Crossley Heath School
Halifax, HX3 OHG

poetry success

Here's my poem which was runner up at the RS Thomas poetry festival, 2022:

In response to Countering, RS Thomas

Calling Time on Love

Now the clock has put a full

Stop on your sentence, I am

Deaf to poetry. A castaway,

No hand takes mine. I

Heave at the hour hand, to counter-

turn it fifty years but it is stuck

at the point of your departing.

It’s I must change time: face

Forward, count the dead hours

Without you; the shipwreck

I am, the proof love has

No end on this isle, even now

You’re in so distant a land, I can

No longer read your face.

Jennifer Burkinshaw