Carole Bromley's fourth collection brings together poems about York and Yorkshire, the loss of friends and loved ones, travel, literature, art, and her own recent experience of brain surgery.Startling, witty, and with an eye for detail as sharp as a falcon's claws, this new publication by a poet who 'never forgets her reader' is set to delight, entertain and provoke all who climb its towers and paces its halls.
'Blast Off!' is aimed at 7-10 year olds but lower secondary school children will also enjoy the poems which are varied in subject matter (fairytales, funny poems and serious poems, poems about school and bugs and Christmas angels and pets and siblings, about moving house, space, football, friends, marbles, musical instruments and magnesium). There are riddles and clerihews and rhyming couplets, short poems, long poems and everything in between.
The Stonegate Devil is Carole Bromley's second collection. The book has a strong York flavour and explores local places and the stories associated with them as well as the poet's Yorkshire childhood, coming of age and relationships. There are poems sparked by travels to Ireland, Japan and Australia and others whose subjects are closer to home. A number explore Bromley's experience of teaching and writing and there are also moving poems about birth and death, especially the loss of a close friend and of the poet's own mother