Lick of Loose Threads

Description:

In A Lick of Loose Threads Jenna Plewes gives us a window into the lives of people who are making the best of things in difficult times. Poems celebrate the kindness of strangers, resilience and courage found in unlikely places; fragments of ordinary lives that are extraordinary and special. These are warm and lyrical poems shot through with the beauty of the natural world.

'Attentive and observant, these sensitive poems are a mending of life's everyday, a generous and deeply empathic pamphlet collection.'

'These loose threads are memorable character sketches of the small and sometimes forgotten, vividly realised through Jenna Plewes' poetic attention. This is a wistful and thoughtful poetry, attuned to "Torn fabric, / mended [and] re-patterned" and to "the stumbling will to live"'

Brief description: Jenna Plewes has published 7 collections of poetry. Her award winning collection "The Underside of Things" that came out in 2020 has raised £1280.00 for charity. Her poems appear in many anthologies and magazines. "A Woven Rope" published by V.Press came out in 2020 and is being sold in aid of Freedom from Torture. Her love of the natural world, sea and wild spaces, and her career in psychotherapy give her poetry its distinctive voice. She lives in Worcestershire with her husband and border collie.