Valerie Denton has been writing poetry for most of her life and has performed her poems at festivals, concerts
and book launches. Much of her writing stems from meditation (TM) and from her interest in dance and music.
She has worked as a creative writing tutor in adult education, which led to anthologies being produced.
she also enjoys  choral singing and is a member of a local choir.she has been a member of an African         drumming group in Rendlesham, Suffolk. Peace Rose her latest poetry book was published August 2020 and is now available to order.
Price £8.00 (plus postage and packing)
Click here to listen to Valerie performing New Grange
Click here to listen to Valerie performing Peace Rose

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Enough to Love a Multitude is Peter Watkins first published collection of poems. Many of his  poetic motifs
in the collection arise from the gentle landscape & slow rivers of Suffolk in which he finds divinity, solace,
and inspiration. This collection is both personal & universal in its exploration of the vicissitudes of life
and the soul’s journey through the archetypal dark wood.

It is about the consolation & redemption to be found in nature.  Above all it is an invocation of love. 

Price £10.00 (plus postage and packing)

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The poems and paintings in this collection are a testament to Dave Martin’s profound and long lasting
attachment to the coastal path of Pembrokeshire.
£10.00 (plus postage and packing)

Extract from SPS 12 Rivers magazine- review by Pat Jourdan
This is the voice of someone endlessly searching for a spirtual fulfilment, and looking for clues and significance
in the certainty of those rocks. The liminal, mystical floats over the precise scientific names of the rocks,
era by era of geological time....Pre Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian worlds. Dave Martin's task is to knit the
two - like sky and soil together. Each poem shows a different approach which he likens to a pilgrimage.
He is seeking a deeper spiritual meaning in poem after poem with the working of a deeper symmetry
and sees Wales itself At the horizon of time/where the birth of myth meets/The jagged thrust of rock.

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'Conversations With Birds', my first collection of poetry grew out of my writing the title poem of that name and the realisation that birds featured in so much of my writing that they were a unifying factor and deserved to be gathered together.
What is it about birds that they lend so much to poetic expression? What do they represent to us, freedom, spirituality, a direct connection to the natural world?
As a child I was obsessed with birds, I knew their haunts, their flights, their calls. I had no doubt that at some level beyond language I had direct connection with them so when my grandfather with whom I had a very close relationship passed away I did not doubt that when a jackdaw perched on my shoulder as I waited for the school bus this was his way of saying goodbye.
We live through our minds and what is real to them guides much of our life and need not be the same as or in conflict with the physical world. They are two of what may be many realities that can coexist and for me the poems in 'Conversations With Birds'  are where they can come together.

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