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'I have been asked to write things for poets before and have often found it difficult to find anything to say. Not the case here. These are marvellous poems; immediately engaging, witty, moving, funny and caustic they are underpinned throughout by a warm and perceptive humanity. Whether speaking as a bird, rats in the sewers of Leeds, or in her native Scots Char March's voice always rings true. This is a collection I will return to again and again.’ Jo Haslam
‘Char March’s latest collection sparkles with humour and intelligence. She has an enviable range of voices with which she surprises, moves, and shocks us. She moves dextrously between different geographies, conflicted histories, and varieties of contemporary English. Her poems brilliantly combine the poet’s cherishing of the individual word with the playwright’s understanding of the situated voice.’ Prof. John Whale, The Poetry Centre, University of Leeds
'March's poems made me pay attention - and laugh. Wry, pithy and downright funny, Char March’s new collection unpacks into serial astonishment: each poem doorsteps you with its distinct voice and attitude.’ Graham Mort
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- or order direct from your local indie bookshop (use it or lose it!).
‘Char March’s latest collection sparkles with humour and intelligence. She has an enviable range of voices with which she surprises, moves, and shocks us. She moves dextrously between different geographies, conflicted histories, and varieties of contemporary English. Her poems brilliantly combine the poet’s cherishing of the individual word with the playwright’s understanding of the situated voice.’ Prof. John Whale, The Poetry Centre, University of Leeds
'March's poems made me pay attention - and laugh. Wry, pithy and downright funny, Char March’s new collection unpacks into serial astonishment: each poem doorsteps you with its distinct voice and attitude.’ Graham Mort
To order your signed copy for a mere £9 (incl. p&p), contact me
- or order direct from your local indie bookshop (use it or lose it!).
'Something Vital Fell Through'- competition-winning short stories
“I absolutely love ‘Something Vital Fell Through'. This is March at her very finest. In a few deft strokes of the pen, the characters feel alive and fully realised. The images are wonderful, and so unexpected; the sense of real physical space is fabulously done. These stories entrance." Rosie Garland (Mslexia award-winner and novelist)
"A book of naughty wonder and delight" Patrick Gale - novelist
"Char March’s witty, erotic and subtly subversive stories create a rare intimacy with the reader. A collection to savour and a writer to watch." Michael Arditti - novelist and critic
A mere £9 (incl p&p) - for your signed copy, contact me
- or order direct from your local indie bookshop (use it or lose it!).
"A book of naughty wonder and delight" Patrick Gale - novelist
"Char March’s witty, erotic and subtly subversive stories create a rare intimacy with the reader. A collection to savour and a writer to watch." Michael Arditti - novelist and critic
A mere £9 (incl p&p) - for your signed copy, contact me
- or order direct from your local indie bookshop (use it or lose it!).
'Some Girls' Mothers' - creative non-fiction stories
A powerful collection of poignant true short stories about our mothers - and our daughters. Love them, or hate them - you can't (often!) get rid of them!
Written by six writers at the very top of their game.
Simon Armitage says:
"This collection is touching and humbling."
A mere £6 (incl p&p) - for your signed copy, contact me
- or order direct from your local indie bookshop (use it or lose it!).
Written by six writers at the very top of their game.
Simon Armitage says:
"This collection is touching and humbling."
A mere £6 (incl p&p) - for your signed copy, contact me
- or order direct from your local indie bookshop (use it or lose it!).
'The Thousand Natural Shocks' - award-winning poetry
Currently sold out
"Char March delights in the hidden strengths of words, her poems have a healthy toughness at their heart – the ability to surprise the reader with a candour that forces us not just to feel but also to think."
Philip Gross (TS Eliot Prize Winner)
"This collection is wonderful: so perfectly balanced, the emotion, the right amount of distance, the images so telling yet so lightly placed, the language so rich in so many registers, and the voices so individual – and all of them genuine."
Valerie Laws (award-winning science-art poet)
Review: Abegail Morley - poet and critic
Philip Gross (TS Eliot Prize Winner)
"This collection is wonderful: so perfectly balanced, the emotion, the right amount of distance, the images so telling yet so lightly placed, the language so rich in so many registers, and the voices so individual – and all of them genuine."
Valerie Laws (award-winning science-art poet)
Review: Abegail Morley - poet and critic
'The Cloud Appreciation Society's Day Out' - poetry
Currently sold out
This collection is the culmination of my year as Writer-in-Residence of the huge Watershed Landscape project.
”These poems brim with those non-identical twin qualities of compassion and wit. Char March presents a landscape fathomed through the prism of human experience, and
human experience filtered through landscape to create moving and engaging work that leaves you wanting more.”
Ian McMillan (poet & BBC presenter)
“I have walked, cycled and talked about this landscape, but when I read these poems, I feel it. As I sit here at my desk in London, my feet are wet, my face hammered by the wind, my eyes see clouds of sausage and mash –all around me is half Yorkshire, half Lancashire. With this collection, wherever you are in the world, you can carry the Pennine Watershed in your pocket.”
Clare Balding (BBC TV and radio presenter)
”These poems brim with those non-identical twin qualities of compassion and wit. Char March presents a landscape fathomed through the prism of human experience, and
human experience filtered through landscape to create moving and engaging work that leaves you wanting more.”
Ian McMillan (poet & BBC presenter)
“I have walked, cycled and talked about this landscape, but when I read these poems, I feel it. As I sit here at my desk in London, my feet are wet, my face hammered by the wind, my eyes see clouds of sausage and mash –all around me is half Yorkshire, half Lancashire. With this collection, wherever you are in the world, you can carry the Pennine Watershed in your pocket.”
Clare Balding (BBC TV and radio presenter)
My books are also available from my lovely publishers Indigo Dreams, Route, Valley Press and from Bookshop. And 'Something Vital Fell Through' is also available on Kindle.
