Hen run   -   Sven X-et Erixsons , 1932

Swedish, 1899-1970

Kite You said you wanted to make a kite, and it must be purple you said, so we found purple paper and pink string and sticks and scissors  and cellotape, and you drew a shape  on the purple paper, declaring it ‘kite’ and eventually there it was, dangling ecstatic down the centre of the banisters, with your sweet, smiling face above me and the kite dancing in the air. Rose Cook published in…

Fresh Start: A Shepherd’s Calendar ~ Rose Cook

‘Fresh Start: A Shepherd’s Calendar’ by Rose Cook is out now published by Hen Run at Grey Hen Press.Available by email: [email protected] it costs £4 plus p&p. What people are saying: It’s a beguiling mix of pastoral and personal that I’m enjoying very much 🤍 One month on from its release, this beautiful new Shepherd’s Calendar will take you on a poetic journey through the year. I love it!…

‘Sightings’ review: D A Prince is fascinated by the way Rose Cook controls the speed of seeing things in the natural environment

Sightings, Rose CookGrey Hen Press (Hen Run), 2019  £4.00 The speed of sight

Seeing — that noticing of what’s around us — is something we take for granted. It’s a part of the totality of being aware. Rose Cook’s opening poem, ‘Sightings’, draws attention to the impact of sudden sights, where unexpected immediacy comes as a shock —

Saw the whale flex its muscular back against blue water, not far…

Review of ‘Sightings’ from The High Window

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Rose Cook’s Sightings reviewed by David Cooke

Sightings by Rose Cook. £4. Hen Run (Grey Hen Press). ISBN:  978-1999690304

The title of Rose Cook’s new chapbook, Sightings, reminds one of Seamus Heaney’s 1991 masterpiece, Seeing Things,and, in particular, its long visionary sequence, ‘Squarings’. Moreover, the fact that Cook’s collection…

Announcing – ‘Sightings’ a new book of poems from Rose Cook

    a new, slim volume of poems: Sightings from Rose Cook

published by Grey Hen Press    £4 plus p&p    email [email protected]

  What some have said about the book:

Here are poems “bright as Lord Krishna’s hair’ that take great joy and delight in the wild-life of sea and shore. In an age of cynicism and depression over climate change these poems are a pure celebration of nature; to quote a…