Matthew Keeley’s poems finds magnified meaning in fleeting moments as he explores bereavement and memory following the death of his mother. Journeys, gestures, remembered words and everyday items – from knitting needles to left-behind boots – take on new significance. From the Juniper Room weighs life against loss in poems that are at once deeply personal to the poet but recognisable to the reader. Matthew hails from Glasgow and he now works in TV Development in London.
Glass & Gravel is poetry that doesn’t pretend everything is roses and honey.
This is a book for readers who know there’s a cost to seeing things clearly. For anyone who understands that talking honestly about grief, trauma, heartbreak, and rebuilding rarely comes out neat or polite.
Glass & Gravel is a collection of raw, uncompromising, and unflinching poems—p—paired with stark black-and-white illustrations that deepen its impact. These images don’t soften the words; they reinforce the themes of fracture, clarity, and the cost of confronting what breaks us.
ARTSCAPES A 78-page collection of ekphrastic poems that dazzle with vivid imagery and expert wordplay. Lee Woodman has chosen to explore works from major museums, including The National Gallery, MOMA, The Guggenheim, The Prado, and the Louvre. Woodman invites readers to walk into paintings, enter worlds triggered by sculpture, and eavesdrop on conversations with artists. She will take you to a roaring boxing ring in Washington D.C., a cave in Indonesia with forty-thousand-year-old paintings, and a harem’s den in Algiers. All is possible in poetry.
