The Day Before Joy - Sharman, Penny

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Résumé :
There's a jolting frankness to these poems. Sometimes oddly bare and powerful, they say what they mean. - Mark Waldron Penny Sharman's poems have a painter's touch, not just in terms of colour, form and light as invocation but in the care with which she picks words and feels her way through them to offer magical experiences that feel fresh and precise. - George Szirtes Penny Sharman believes in beauty. She believes in a world where cabbage white flies low / over the singing river, Dragon lines at Culbone, and a world where we are canopy adrift, clouds of happy happy-happy. She's a poet who believes there's a green door / oasis in a burnt out mind of this century, this crisis where we all find ourselves. So, perhaps it is a blessing that there are still people like Penny Sharman, telling us that magical plant / mistletoe / needs a / kiss - maybe if more people thought that way, our world would be kinder. - Ilya Kaminsky Penny Sharman writes with passion and intensity, painting the world in luminous colours. For her, the meaning is somewhere within the microcosms that make up this universe - the snowflake, the insect, the hair standing up on your skin. In many of her poems she celebrates the unexpected pleasures of the ageing body, suggesting that the years bring, not exactly wisdom, but a shameless curiosity that knows it can never be fully satisfied. - Ailsa Cox...

Biographie:
Penny Sharman started writing poetry in her fifties during her menopause and found her voice for the first time as a creative force. She is a published poet, photographer, artist and therapist. She is inspired by wild landscapes and relationships between the seen and unseen. Penny has an MA in Creative Writing from Edge Hill University. She has had poems published in magazines such as Spelt, The Interpreter's House, Strix, The North, Finished Creatures, Orbis, Ink Sweat &Tears & Mslexia & Candlestick Press Pamphlets. She has been Artist in Residence for the High Window in 2019. Recently her poems have reached the shortlist of The Bridport Prize, 2023 and The Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year Prize 2023. Her work was highly commended in the Fool for Poetry Chapbook competition in 2024. Her books Fair Ground. Swim With Me In Deep Water. The Day before Joy. Catching the Heather & The Ash of Time are available to buy from her website: pennysharman.co.uk. Penny is Editor of Obsessed with Pipework Poetry Magazine....

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Penny Sharman started writing poetry in her fifties during her menopause and found her voice for the first time as a creative force. She is a published poet, photographer, artist and therapist. She is inspired by wild landscapes and relationships between the seen and unseen. Penny has an MA in Creative Writing from Edge Hill University. She has had poems published in magazines such as Spelt, The Interpreter's House, Strix, The North, Finished Creatures, Orbis, Ink Sweat &Tears & Mslexia & Candlestick Press Pamphlets. She has been Artist in Residence for the High Window in 2019. Recently her poems have reached the shortlist of The Bridport Prize, 2023 and The Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year Prize 2023. Her work was highly commended in the Fool for Poetry Chapbook competition in 2024. Her books Fair Ground. Swim With Me In Deep Water. The Day before Joy. Catching the Heather & The Ash of Time are available to buy from her website: pennysharman.co.uk. Penny is Editor of Obsessed with Pipework Poetry Magazine....