Books

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The prices of the books are:

Poison £10
Sometime, in a Churchyard £12.50
John Dust £5.
In the scullery with John Keats. £6
A Child’s Last Picture Book of the Zoo £8
All including P&P.

Poison

I am delighted to announce that my new poetry pamphlet is now published by Tuba Press. Please contact me for a copy £10 including P&P.

From Arsenic, Strychnine and Nicotine to Hemlock and Foxglove. Their compound, how they were used, how they were misused, the symptoms they caused and eventual death.

There are also poems featuring poisoners including:

Florence Meybrick who in 1889 was accused of murdering her husband by arsenic poisoning.

Giulia Tofana a 17th Century Italian professional poisoner who invented a perfume containing arsenic, lead and belladonna. Provided to woman to kill their abusive husbands. Said to have killed over 600!

Sometime, in a Churchyard

I’m delighted to announce the publication in September 2022 of my latest poetry pamphlet ‘Sometime, in a Churchyard’ published by Paelekerilki Press.

In collaboration with the artist Charlotte Harker, this is a visual and poetic personal journey through St Pancras Old Churchyard, London. This ancient burial site has associations with Mary Shelley and Thomas Hardy, and is a personal place of solace.

John Dust

This pamphlet with illustrations by the artist and printmaker John Duffin was published by V. Press in 2019.

Indoors, outdoors, stitched from language. In this lovely pamphlet- beautifully illustrated too with prints that complement the poems well- the poet creates a vivid world where indoors and outdoors bleed into each other, and this mythic figure of John Dust gallops about his business.
Sphinx

Enter John Dust- the riveting personification of Louise Warren’s native Somerset. Prepared to be charmed, hoodwinked, even seduced. His landscapes entwine us in their atmospheres and memories, like lovers. Her imagery is lively and surprising, her rhythms inventive, with a sure use of repetition. Sometimes the pamphlet reads like a song, sometimes like a botanist’s memoir. Often it is playful- even tongue-in-cheek. Always relishing the vibrancy of words.
Ink Sweat and Tears

The wiry figure of John Dust leaps into Louise Warren’s pamphlet and runs through it in ragged clothes. The imagery around him is fertile with the cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

His omnipresence gives a unique flavour to this short collection, but there’s far more here, with poems set in Warren’s Somerset locality tat are resonant with the atmosphere of magic realism.

We’re in Angela Carter territory, and we are drawn in, waiting for each surprise as nature is described in striking and unexpected ways.
London Grip.

In the Scullery with John Keats

My second collection of poems was published by Cinnamon Press in 2016.

Louise Warren is on to something with her fantasies of John Keats appearing as revenant in the scullery, the garden, the bedroom and the Underground. They show Warren’s deft touch with post-modern style that has serious design on the reader’s attention. Irregular line breaks, absence of punctuation, syncopated rhythms and internal rhymes; thus forcing us to read slowly, tasting as the poem goes. Then one appreciates the sly eroticism of breaking fluids, surfaces, virginal buttons.
London Grip

There’s a translucent quality to these poems. Objects and people shine through at an angle.

Her John Keats pieces take the reader on a forage through his Hampstead house and garden, where something remains of him, ghost-like and yet vibrantly alive.

Louise Warren has a outstanding ability with the brush. Her words are water colours: soft, subtle, and unafraid of the white hidden space that lies beneath experience. I have read and re-read these poems, and they remain fresh and vivid. Her fine washes of phrase and simile open up meaning and wonderment in the simplest of things.

Delicious and intoxicating.
Sphinx

What’s so terrific about these poems are their cheekiness, strangeness, and subversive antics. Elegantly paced and tightly worded constructions. Her subject matter is eclectic, a dead poets’ visitations, the sky at night, the dance of a curtain, country common names, John Tenniel’s drawing of the white rabbit for Lewis Carrol’s Alice. These are poems that are equally disconcerting and engaging, tender and prickly.

A memorably haunting voice in the current poetry scene producing highly individual work that’s very good indeed.
Ink Sweat and Tears

A Child’s Last Picture Book
of the Zoo

My first full length collection of poems won the Cinnamon Press debut prize and was published in 2012.

She writes of the earth and the dark, tells us about plants and bulbs, bees, sofas, of creatures as spoons, of channel forts and pylons. Her poems are full of atmosphere, a strong playful surrealism. But like all her perceptions, observations, adventures, it’s a surreality that is felt: her intense gaze, the wondering, the searching is emotionally experienced, existentially grounded within her. This is personal poetry. It’s rather good poetry.
Write Out Loud