This Was Your Mother
Dreich Press (2024)
'Sam Szanto has created a glorious celebration of love, life and loss'
'Gliding skilfully between past and present sne invokes powerful imagery and lyrical, evocative language.'
Annie Cowell
'I recommend reading and re-reading this collection.'
Candice Kelsey
'Here are poems to love'
Catherine Graham (UK)
To purchase a copy from Sam, email sam.szanto@gmail.com - Two copies left!
A review by Peter Mladinic was published in Tears in the Fence Literary Journal.
Full review here: https://tearsinthefence.com/2024/04/06/this-was-your-mother-by-sam-szanto-dreich/
Readings and Events
Sam has read her short stories and poetry as a guest and headliner at live events organised by a number of hosts, including Blackwell's Newcastle (with Mary Mulholland and Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana); the Baltic (launch of the Words on a NE Street anthology); New Writing North ('Read Them Your Writes'); 10 red in Edinburgh (The Candyman's Trumpet); Dreich ('Summer Everywhere / Anywhere') at the Lit & Phil in Newcastle; Steve Urwin ('Poetry Jam', Durham) and Jenny Thompson ('The Cooking Pot', Whitley Bay). She has also read at a number of online events and book launches.
To book Sam for a reading or other live event, contact her here
Next reading: 28th February 2026, guest of Louise Longson. Tickets https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/last-saturday-poetry-february-2026-tickets-1983156576706
