This Was Your Mother

A chat with Lawrence Moore about his poetry collection, This Joyful Interlude (Jane’s Studio Press, 2025) How would you describe This Joyful Interlude in one sentence? Aha, I have a ready-made answer for this one! Here’s the one sentence description I gave to my publisher Jane Cornwell, when I pitched the book to her. ‘Pasted against the nebulous backdrops of doubt and passing time, This Joyful Interlude assembles a delicate collage of hopes and romantic longings.’ How did y

A chat with Bex Hainsworth about her poetry book Circulaire  (Written Off Publishing, 2025) How would you describe Circulaire  in one sentence? Circulaire is my confessional era, a collection of poems exploring inheritance, femininity, corporeality, and relationships. How did you come up with the title? There is a poem in the pamphlet called ‘Circulaire’, the French word for circular. The poem describes two holidays in La Rochelle, ten years apart, which form bookends to the

A chat with Amy Lilwall about her book, The Water That May Come (Fly on the Wall Press, 2025) How would you describe The Water That May...

A chat with Beth Brooke about her book A Long Way Down (Dempsey & Windle, 2025) How would you describe A Long Way Down in one sentence? ...

A chat with Tessa Foley about her poetry collection Try To Find Me (Live Canon, 2024) How would you describe Try To Find Me in one...

A chat with Karen Pierce Gonzalez about her new book Moon Kissed, Earth Wrought, Vision Drunk (Bottlecap Press, 2025) How would you...

Allison and Janet at Memphis Pizza Cafe in 2009 A chat with Janet Dale and Allison Renner about their hybrid chapbook, Green Light: the...

A chat with Carmella de Keyser about her poetry pamphlet, The Liminal Light of the Night (Hedgehog Press, 2025) How would you describe...

A chat with Fiona Halliday about her poetry book, Thoughts on Life (Hedgehog Press, 2025)   How would you describe Thoughts on Life in...

A chat with James McConachie about his poetry collection, Consolamentum (Black Bough Poetry, 2024) How would you describe Consolamentum...

A chat with Quinn Clark about their book, 365 Days of Healing  (Summersdale, 2024)   How would you describe 365 Days of Healing in one...

A chat with Benedicta Norell about her poetry pamphlet, Terrible Mother  (Black Cat Poetry Press, 2024) How would you describe Terrible...

A chat with Sanjeev Sethi about his poetry collection, Legato Without a Lisp (Classix, 2024) How would you describe Legato Without a...

A chat with Sadie Maskery about her poetry collection, Overheard Lovesongs (Alien Buddha, 2024)   How would you describe  Overheard...

A chat with Elizabeth Barton about her poetry collection, Auroral  (Alien Buddha, 2024)   How would you describe Auroral  in one...

A chat with Bonnie Meekums about her novel, A Kind of Family (Between the Lines Publishing, 2024) How would you describe A Kind of Family...

A chat with Margaret Royall about her poetry pamphlet, Owl Fetish (Dreich Press, 2024) How would you describe Owl Fetish in one sentence?...

A chat with Jason Stocks about his poetry collection, ‘Laughing is Forever (MindStir Media, 2024) How would you describe the book in one...

A chat with Zary Fekete about their recovery collection, To Accept the Things I Cannot Change: Writing My Way Out of Addiction (Creative...

A chat with François Bereaud about his short story collection, San Diego Stories (Cowboy Jamboree Press, 2024) How would you describe San...