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 books by 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 masterly. 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)
Praise for books by 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 masterly. 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)
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THIS CLOSE
Linda Rose Parkes
'This Close', published in September 2018, is Linda Rose Parkes's fourth collection. The cover of 'This Close' is based on her painting, 'The Swimmer'.
“We are lucky these poems are tethered to the page by ink because they want to run, float, fly from the paper into a Chagall sky, voluptuous with possibility. Linda Rose Parkes writes as she paints – with generosity, wonder and luminous colour.”
– Helen Ivory
Poet, editor, lecturer at the University of East Anglia
Linda Rose Parkes
'This Close', published in September 2018, is Linda Rose Parkes's fourth collection. The cover of 'This Close' is based on her painting, 'The Swimmer'.
“We are lucky these poems are tethered to the page by ink because they want to run, float, fly from the paper into a Chagall sky, voluptuous with possibility. Linda Rose Parkes writes as she paints – with generosity, wonder and luminous colour.”
– Helen Ivory
Poet, editor, lecturer at the University of East Anglia
This Close by Linda Rose Parkes
ISBN 978-1907435-68-3
Perfect-bound paperback
15cm x 21cm
87 pages
51 poems
RRP £10.00
ISBN 978-1907435-68-3
Perfect-bound paperback
15cm x 21cm
87 pages
51 poems
RRP £10.00
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The door sings
its welcome |
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it's the kind of door
that trickles honey in the light and says come in twice at least leave your coat in the hall the kettle's singing sit yourself down here at the window in the garden oak a blackbird warbles breezes play among the cushions |
next door is grey and
cracked at the hinges too much slammed yanked open lost or stolen jobs hopes loves but this door is a honeycomb a promise don't keep walking by scarred with disappointment don't slow your step to rush silently on only knock and step in out of the ruins only knock and the door will swing gently wide © Linda Rose Parkes 2018 |
