​Linda Rose Parkes studied literature at U.E.A and lived in Germany for 19 years where she taught adult education and performed with song writers and musicians. She continues to run poetry workshops in Jersey, her native Channel Island, was co-editor of Wavelengths, the first Channel Island poetry anthology and has published three collections with Hearing Eye: 'The Usher's Torch', 'Night Horses' and 'Familiars'.

Praise for Linda Rose Parkes:
“Elusive magic, the poet is ‘Schehezerade of the Thousand and One Nights’. One more sip, one more shadow to pass through…”
–      Sarah Law on ‘The Usher’s Torch’ in Orbis
 
“Parkes’s relentless eye misses nothing, but control is maturity. A bravely candid voice, a deft searcher under surfaces.”
–      Katherine Gallagher on ‘Night Horses’ in Artemis
 
'Linda Rose Parkes's ‘Familiars’ is dark and scintillating, rich with life and dense with mingled rage and longing'.
      –  Bethany W. Pope's review of ‘Familiars’ in Ofi Press 44
 
‘There  is an excellent weirdness in these poems which makes them distinctive, unique even.’
       – Martin Crucefix

'This is a fine collection in every sense: finely-wrought and detailed as well as beautiful. Through  language of ringing clarity, she makes us unsure of ourselves, and  so  gives us back to ourselves, with new understanding.' 
       –Tanja Nightingale, Dream Catcher (Familiars)

THIS CLOSE  
​Linda Rose Parkes
'This Close', which is to be published in September 2018, is Linda Rose Parkes's  fourth collection. She is also a lyricist and painter; the cover of 'This Close' is based on her painting, 'The Swimmer'.

ISBN 978-1907435-68-3
Perfect-bound paperback
15cm x 21cm
87 pages
51 poems