Description
This new anthology features work from 37 emerging and established Reading poets. Edited by award-winning poet Vic Pickup, this book presents a vibrant and diverse collection, reflecting the energy and variety of the town’s arts scene.
Includes poems from: Liam Anslow-sucevic; Kate Behrens; Denise Bundred; J. A. Clothier; Maisie Crittenden; Marcin Czyż; Fiona Dignan; Jo Farrant; John Froy; Anastasia Gale; Martin Haslam; Kitty Hawkins; Megan Hay; Frances Hudson; Karen Izod; Andrew Jamison; Charlotte Johnson; Zannah Kearns; Gill Learner; Katherine Meehan; Kate Noakes; Louise Ordish; Patrick Osada; Lillie Postlewhite; Victoria Pugh; Kate Pursglove; Susan Roberts; Lesley Saunders; Geoff Sawers; Isobel Shirlaw; Megan Slater; Antonia Taylor; Robin Thomas; Susan Utting; Jean Watkins; Ann Westgarth; Jules Whiting.
Edited by Vic Pickup. Paperback, 210 x 135 mm, 108 pages, June 2024.
Vic Pickup is the author of Lost & Found (Hedgehog Press, 2020), What Colour is My Brain? (Hedgehog Press 2022) and The Omniscient Tooth Fairy (Indigo Dreams, 2023). She is a co-organiser of Poets Café Reading and the town’s Stanza group. @vicpickup www.vicpickup.com
‘A poem can be both snapshot and moving picture, and nowhere is this more evident than here, in Two Rivers Press’s latest anthology of poems by poets for whom Reading is – however enduringly, or fleetingly – home. In ‘Reading Poets’, each poem stands testament to the fact that, whilst life constantly changes, we also have the chance to stand still and take account of the now. And, although the now is soon over, what lives on here, in poems on subjects as disparate as Van Gogh to Banksy, from burnt rice to lime pickle, from Shelley’s heart to Tarot cards, is the certainty that it is our uniqueness that unites us. So, whether you place this book in an album, or replay it again and again as you would a favourite movie, whenever you spend time with these varied, warm voices there will be the chance to experience a sense of community – what one poet calls ‘The ‘we’ becoming ‘us’’.’ – Claire Dyer
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