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/
Workshops, Readings and Events
Events
Sam will be teaching a workshop on ths subject of her current PhD (at York St John University), absence and attachment in the poetry of parenthood, for the Poetry School on 13th September 2026.
Link to book here: https://poetryschool.com/product/microchimerism-loss-connection-writing-absence-attachment-in-parenthood/
Past Events
Sam has read her short stories and poetry as a guest and headliner at live events organised by a number of hosts, including Arvon ('The Lost Women of Lumb Bank' social history / creative writing project); 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
