Trisha Broomfield

Trisha Broomfield lived in Australia as a child and now lives with her husband in Surrey. 
She writes poetry, short stories and unfinished crime novels.  Her early influences include  Thomas Hardy, Ted  Hughes and the Liverpool Poets. Some of her poems have been published in the Welsh Literary magazine Roundyhouse. Her first  collection of poems,  ‘The  Equator and  Other Disappointments’ was published by Dempsey & Windle in 2016 and her second is coming out in July 2018.  Trisha is also preparing a collection of her short stories for publication.

The Equator and other Disappointments
From 'The Equator and other Disappointments' (2017)

They told me if I watched the water as we crossed the Equator It would
flow the opposite way
down the plughole but it didn’.t. 
They told me if I was good when I had my tonsils out I could have ice cream
but they brought me junket.
Have you any idea how that tastes? 
They told me if I ate the skin from the fish
I would be brainy.
Really.
They told me if I ate all the crusts from my toast I would have curly hair 
and if I finished my supper
there would be no starving children in the world.

Growing Together
From 'Husbands for Breakfast' (2018) 
 
Behind the woodshed
they grew each other up
from first fumblings,
retreat, advance, repeat,
softness and solidity
learning, yearning
ignorance and innocence,
they flowed like the tides,
the moon pulling their strings
teaching them things
they knew inside
until one day
they had to get married.

​Books by Trisha Broomfield

The Equator and other Disappointments​

ISBN: 978-1-907435-33-1
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​Published 2016
Perfect-bound paperback
​46 pages
15.24 wide x 22.86 tall
​£6.00 + p&p

In this, Trisha Broomfield's first collection of poetry, she explores early memories of travelling to Australia and back, school, friends and teenage relationships, and more recent experiences, her own and others'. Her 'disappointment' with the Equator makes this book no less of a delightful read as we follow her occasionally sardonic synopsis of childhood, youth and adult relationships.

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Husbands for Breakfast

ISBN: 978-1-907435-67-6

Published 2018
Perfect-bound paperback
49 pages
14.9cm wide x 21.0cm tall

"This  is  a collection of poems whose narratives  reach far beyond  each snapshot. The tales  are set in the 50’s  and 70’s  and  celebrate strong, unconventional  women  who  enjoy, amongst  other  events, a  weekly dalliance with the local bobby, cat fights in a car park over some bloke, or serially sleeping with husbands who don’t belong to them! ... Nothing changes in the free love 1970’s,  where  first  romantic fumblings lead to marriage then betrayal and hurt. ...Such  vibrant women,  many  of  whom ultimately learn  to  dance in a red dress  or turn cartwheels in celebration of their new-found independence."
​Fiona Sinclair 

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