<p>Born of a shared love of washing lines and poetry, the subject of this anthology is laundry and washing, reflecting many human emotions to do with family, relationships and memory. It is a collection of over 50 poems ranging from folk songs such as 'Dashing away with the smoothing iron' to contemporary poems by renowned poets including Seamus Heaney, Gillian Clarke, Tess Gallagher and Pablo Neruda. There are also over a dozen beautiful wood engravings by artists as diverse as Clare Leighton and Clifford Harper. Alexander Lee (who has written the Afterword) has suggested that we are tapping into something far more exciting than a simple love of washing lines - the current environmental and economic issues. He started Project Laundry List to campaign in America for the 'right to dry' when he realised that 6-10% of US domestic electricity is consumed by tumble driers. So whether it is the joy of washing blowing on the line, the smell of clean linen or the rhythmic dance of two people folding sheets together, this collection is a celebration. Washing Lines was launched at The Independent Woodstock Literary Festival when Gillian Clarke read a selection of poems from the book.</p>

Washing Lines Collection Of Poems

Literature & Fiction

Hextall, Janie

Poetry

Lautus Press

The timeless pleasure of beach-walking and beach-combing is reflected in these poems about shells and pebbles, tides and rock pools, flotsam and jetsam.Time spent on a beach, whatever the weather, lifts the spirits.This collection is for everyone who loves to be beside the sea and finds it impossible to come back from the beach with empty pockets.

Shorelines A Collection Of Poems

Janie Hextall

<p>An anthology of poetry about woods, trees and orchards, illustrated with wood engravings. Trees are all around us, taken for granted, marking the seasons, and forming the backdrop to our daily lives. Who hasn't got a favourite tree? Who hasn't planted a tree? Climbed a tree? Sat in the shade of a tree? Picked up a conker? Who hasn't walked happily through a wood? As Ralph Waldo Emerson says 'The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more' Here are poems that reflect that wonder. A wonder that we feel and want to share. This is the fourth anthology published by Lautus Press, and is similar in style and feel. The other titles are Washing Lines (about washing and laundry), Strings of Pearls (about jewels and jewellery and the stories they tell) and Shorelines (about beaches and beachcombing, collecting shells and pebbles). It is a collection of over 60 poems by poets as wide ranging as Philip Larkin, John Clare, Gillian Clarke, Alice Oswald, Seamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy and Helen Dunmore. And there are about twenty-five beautiful wood engravings by artists including Howard Phipps, Anne Hayward, Anita Klein, Sue Scullard and Miriam Macgregor.</p>

Treelines: A Collection Of Poems

Seamus HEaney

Eavan Boland

Philip Larkin

A.E. Housman

mervyn-peake

D.H.Lawrence

Charlotte, Bronte

Clive, James

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