Leeds Big Bookend

  • EMPIRES OF CLAY LAUNCH

      The launch of my first full poetry collection Empires of Clay began dramatically with a text from my publisher Jan Fortune of Cinnamon Press to say that she had been knocked over at York train station and had injured her leg. Fortunately she wasn’t badly hurt but she would be unable to compere the…

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  • First Reviews of Echolocation

    I’m not going to have time to post on a famous mother this week as I’m working today and going away to Tenerife first thing tomorrow for a few days.  It will be our first holiday in a year and we are very much looking forward to it. I’ve had a lot of comments on…

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  • Rebecca Adlington – Sporty Mother

    I’m going to open by saying a thank you to everyone who made it to the launch of Echolocation at a very packed Hyde Park Book Club on Sunday.  It couldn’t have been a more special day with brilliant poetry from Michael Brown and open micers, generous compering from Matthew Hedley Stoppard and the support…

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