Tag: Jocelyn Simms
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The promise of Jocelyn Simms
If you’re in the book trade, you receive a lot of books for review, but there are certain names that, like those first signs of approaching summer, bring a sparkle of anticipation. I was looking forward to The Promise of Thaw by Jocelyn Simms, and the promise was fulfilled. The back-jacket reviewers are Elaine Briggs,…
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Three poems find sanctuary
You too can be Battersea Poetry Home. It’s amazing the treasures you can rescue from potential oblivion, and give sanctuary to in your own head. When you pick up a poetry book and find something you love, ideas, images and phrases take root. You have enriched yourself, as well as rescuing a book that might…
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Tickling the Dragon – bilingual fest, photos and reviews
Joc Simms’ book brought together some never-before seen photos of the soldier-victims of nuclear tests, some very personal histories and her breath-taking poetry about nuclear war. Here are some of the events and some of the reactions…
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Tickling the Dragon
It’s time to re-visit that process, to put the human, the personal, the political back in – time to face the mushroom cloud.
Kay Green 