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Fiona Sinclair lives in a village in Kent with her husband Kim and an imaginary dog. She is the editor of the on-line poetry magazine Message in Bottle. Fiona reviews poetry and also art exhibitions, specifically at Turner Contemporary, Margate. Her writing has been published in numerous magazines, including: Snakeskin Poetry Webzine; Obsessed with Pipework; London Grip: Prole Magazine; The Lake; The Journal Literary Magazine:The Peeking Cat: Ascent Aspirations; and Pulsar. |
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A TALENT FOR HATS by Fiona Sinclair
Fiona is attracted to the overlooked, even peculiar aspects of modern life. In this short collection she takes as her theme the “second skins” that we put on in order to cope or hide from issues of identity, Her knack for mixing slang and every-day language with a more conventional poetic turn of phrase, makes these poems sparkle with brilliant, unusual language and images.
Here, boldly and poignantly written, is the understanding that beneath a woman’s outward appearance and smart excuses, there lurks the fear that she is losing her power to attract, that the beauty of her youth inexorably, inevitably fades, taking her power with it. ....Sinclair has excellent observational powers... '
Agnes Meadows, poet, editor and reviewer
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THE TIME TRAVELLERS' PICNIC by Fiona Sinclair
David Mark Williams writes: 'Sinclair weaves wonder into the most everyday of occurrences. She achieves this through the exuberance of her writing and a wit that at times achieves Metaphysical invention.'
— David Mark Williams --The Lake 
ISBN 978-1-907435-83-6
2019 127 pages Perfect bound paperback 210mm wide x 148mm tall RRP £10.00 OFFER: £7.00 (UK only) For international orders, please contact the author through our CONTACT page. We regret that if an overseas order is sent to us, we can refund only 90% of the payment made, because there will be a 10% handling charge. THIS PAYPAL BUTTON IS FOR UK ORDERS ONLY Rosie Jackson writes about The Time Travellers' Picnic: read her full review in The London Grip Reviews (July 2019)
."..Sinclair’s complex weave of language and images feels like being wrapped in a brocaded patchwork quilt of silks and denim. Yet it is her unsparing honesty, often funny, that keeps us with her. “Not as Young as We Feel”,reprinted here in full, suggests that, for all the physical restrictions: November marriage’ years can be the best of all: After gourmet sex we entwine like twins in a womb. Doze under exhaustion’s ether. Twenty years ago, even, we would be free to slumber until morning. But in middle age, sleep must be prepared for like a journey, a check list of pills for pain, cholesterol, blood pressure … nightclothes stripped off in present-tearing lust, retrieved from floor and pulled back on, sheets smoothed, pillows plumped, duvet adjusted, the final pee. A Night Night kiss then easing onto back and side,' the width of a double bed growing between us.' " Rosie Johnston‘s four poetry books, published by Lapwing Publications in Belfast, are Sweet Seventeens (2010), Orion (2012), Bittersweet Seventeens (2014) and Six-Count Jive (2019). Her poems have appeared or featured in Hedgerow, London Grip, Culture NI, Four x Four, The Honest Ulsterman, Ink, Sweat & Tears, Mary Evans Picture Library’s Poems and Pictures blog, Words for the Wild, From The Edge magazine and in Live Canon’s anthologies ‘154: In Response to Shakespeare’s Sonnets’ (2016) & ‘New Poems for Christmas’ (2018). She has read her poetry widely, including Hungerford Literary Festival, Watford’s Big Word festival, Winchester’s Loose Muse, the Poetry Cafe in Covent Garden, the Troubadour, Torriano, Margate’s Pie Factory, In-Words in Greenwich and Whitstable’s Harbour Books. Rosie was poet in residence for the Cambridgeshire Wildlife Trust until she moved to live by the sea in Kent. www.rosiejohnstonwrites.com |
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SECOND WIND by Fiona Sinclair
"[Fiona Sinclair's] use of language is colourful, richly textured and idiosyncratic. These elements make for a truly distinctive voice. [.. ]A tour de force poem, ‘The Pleasures of Swearing’, is a representative example, which hits the ground running with its opening lines:
First time I discharge the F word, a transgressive tingle, like flashing my tits; the guttural ck satisfying as spitting, the vowel discharge like a bullet. Bloody, bollocks, bastard, milder on my swearing Scoville scale. ...This is wit bordering on the Metaphysical [...] Sinclair is a poet who is always worth reading ... " -- David Mark Williams — The Lake, September 2022 ISBN 978-1-913329-66-2
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