Sarah Macleod lives just south of Oxford. Her poems have been published in various magazines and anthologies including the Edward Thomas Fellowship, Mslexia, Inclement, Iron Press, Pennine Platform, The Poetry Studio, Ver Poets and Vole. She has been longlisted and shortlisted for several pamphlet competitions including Indigo Press, the Geoff Stevens Memorial Prize, Cinnamon Press, the Cinnamon Literature Award, the Brian Dempsey Prize and Hedgehog Press. She is a silversmith and linoprinter and makes chandeliers and automata.

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‘This is a collection of close observation and remarkable phrase-making. A seahorse surfing the waves on a circus unicycle. Beetles rolling up leaves as carefully as addicts. A hare boxing above her weight. The freshness of the language delights the ear. The perception of the natural world is brilliant.’ David Morley FRSL

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‘Sarah Macleod’s book moves from the brilliant imagist bestiary of its early poems with their graphic descriptions of the shapes and colours of creatures to a sense of transience and threat ‘as time falters’ in a world from which the giraffes are leaving and the beehives are shutting up shop. This is a very delightful collection. Bernard O’Donoghue

 

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