Kindling
by Julie Burke
ISBN: 9781915434197
Format: Pamphlet, 44 pages,
Available (Published: September 2024)
£7.00
Book details
Kindling takes the embers of unreliable memory and sparks stories from them. Light-heartedly playing with images and form, many of these poems have a distinct scent of the sea about them while others burn with the fire of a life well-lived. Julie Burke has created a collection of poems that flicker with people and places, lives coming into being and lives lost, flights of fancy, and feet-firmly-on-the-ground reflections on the world that holds us all.
About the Author
Julie Burke worked as an au pair, toy maker, library assistant, biscuit inspector, sandwich vendor and balloon-shopkeeper before at last returning to her native Nottingham. Her poems have appeared in magazines including Brittle Star, South, The Cannon’s Mouth, Obsessed with Pipework, Dream Catcher, Dreich and ARTEMISpoetry, as well as in anthologies, exhibitions, websites, a podcast – even on a building. She is a member of Nottingham Poetry Society.
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Five Leaves Publishing –
It’s always a treat to come across a new poet whose work flies off the page at you. Julie Burke’s Kindling is a delight from start to finish. The poems are clever and heart-felt and at times very funny, as they move at an engaging “…headlong, headstrong, head-down…” lick through childhood, on to the blushes and crushes of being a teenager, and then pick a careful path – in important boots – through adulthood. Any pamphlet of poetry that contains an exuberant paean to a Ford Zephyr has to be a must. These are poems that I know I’ll be re-reading and thinking about and recommending to friends.
Jenny Swann