Lesley has worked with a number of artists over the last few years – including for “Her Leafy Eye”, a book of poems inspired by the 18th century landscaped gardens at Rousham in Oxfordshire.

She first became involved with Two Rivers Press when Peter Hay designed and published – and produced a wonderful series of images for “Christina the Astonishing”, which she wrote together with Jane Draycott in the late 1990s.

More recently she contributed several of her poems to “Reading Poetry: an anthology” ( which collects together works from 16 local poets and illustrates them with evocative watercolours of the area by Sally Castle.

To read some of her poems and to learn more about Lesley Saunders, please click here.