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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, 'Husbands for Breakfast', came out in July 2018. A third collection of poetry, "When Peter Sellars Came to Tea" is to be published by Dempsey & Windle in October 2019. Trisha is also preparing a collection of her short stories for publication. |
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210 x 160mm 47 pages RRP £8.00 |
WHEN PETER SELLERS CAME TO TEA
'This is a collection of charming vignettes. Its starting place is a childhood in the 1960s. The poems are packed full of details that evoke a lost time, from Ponds Cold Cream to Fray Bentos Steak and Kidney Pie. They teem with vivid characters and events. There is humour throughout but also pathos. For beneath the surface of each story lies truths about the human condition that transcends time, thereby making the subject matter relevant to us all. So, we have childhood jaunts, adolescent love and first jobs. Inevitably, the carefreeness of youth gives way to more grown up themes of broken hearts and death. These later poems are written with tenderness and sensitivity, using more inference and abstraction as suits the serious subject matter; again, we are invited to mine beneath the poem for meaning. This makes for a collection that entertains but also provokes thought. It is a delightful, rich and sophisticated anthology.' Fiona Sinclair |
Books by Trisha Broomfield
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