As any poet, in fact any writer, knows it is not easy to even achieve a review in one of the more esteemed poetry magazines – but one year on from publication Shauna Robertson’s Blueprint for a Minefield has been reviewed in Orbis magazine. And it’s good! (an even more difficult thing to achieve!!) Here […]
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Shauna Robertson’s “Blueprints” taught at University level
The poet Carrie Etter has chosen four poetry pamphlets for her third-year poetry module at Bath Spa University: Blueprints for a Minefield by Shauna Robertson (Fair Acre Press) Heroes by Christy Ducker (Smith Doorstop) The Swell by Jess Mookherjee (Telltale Press) Delicious by Padraig Regan (Lifeboat Press) I asked Carrie Etter a few […]
” Blueprints – Wholly Original. Full of standout poems” – Sabotage Review
James O’Leary has reviewed Shauna Robertson’s first poetry publication – Blueprints for a Minefield – for Sabotage Review. Chosen by Jonathan Edwards as one of the two winners of Fair Acre Press’ inaugural poetry pamphlet competition, James says of the pamphlet: “Shauna Robertson has written a rich, compelling book of poetry that deserves to be […]
Superheroes in Poetry!
10:30 am Saturday 23rd April , Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock, at Wenlock Poetry Festival… and for this blog, in alphabetical order… Jonathan Edwards – My Family in a Human Pyramid My uncle starts it, kneeling in his garden; my mother gives a leg up to my gran. When it’s my turn to climb, I […]