SixPoets
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Carole Coates I started writing poetry in the late 80s, but it's a slow business when there are so many other things to do – like earning a living. Shoestring Press published my first collection The Goodbye Edition in 2005 and will be publishing my second, Looking Good in the summer of 2009. I've had quite a few poems published in magazines and I've done many readings. Looking Good contains a sequence of poems about anorexia. I hadn't intended a sequence when I wrote the first one but I found it very easy to carry on writing and exploring the situation I found myself in during my early twenties. I've become more and more interested in the concept of the poetry sequence and am involved in writing a narrative sequence at the moment. I've found the SixPoets to be a most supportive environment for a poet. Over the last five years we have written together, listened to each other's work, given readings and organised readings for ourselves and others. And we've had a huge amount of fun.
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The Hurst I've sketched the house and I've described it, Don't ask me why – perhaps the shuttered glass, I like the little rococo nude statue. They're draperies – she's holding up her dress, She stands in the swing of the lawn There is a gracious space between the statue and the steps Yes, a photo of him there with one of his wives (Jill?). I remember an ancient colonel in York who said So what are we to do, what options do we have – (This was one of the Commended Poems in the Arvon International Poetry Competition Anthology 2004. It also appears in The Goodbye Edition , Shoestring 2005.) |
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