The Snow Was All We Could See

By Amanda Steel and Andy N

Stepping into a different mood, The Snow Was All We Could See is the third co-written book by Manchester poets / writers and married couple, Amanda Steel and Andy N, the authors of Run Away with Me in Seven Words, and The Lockdown Was All We Could See.

 

While both books portrayed different lyrical journeys of life, loss and love – The Snow Was All We Could See is a continuation of the previous journeys, and takes the readers through lockdown into winter, examining the changes in their lives since The Lockdown Was All We Could See.

 

This book contains a series of poems, prose and flash fiction; from observing the isolation of winter in a way they hadn't seen before, and memories (some true) told in flash fiction of adventures and feelings experienced in previous years, perhaps lost forever.

 

This book is as much a love letter to winter and how times have changed, as much as what happens next, to those willing to venture outdoors. This invigorating short collection will hold your hand and make you think and smile across this magical season, sometimes in the same piece.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Amanda Steel
• Release date: Nov 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201179359

Amanda Steel

Amanda Steel is a multi-genre author, podcast co-host and founder of the e-zine "Printed Words". Her other books include "After the Zombies" and "First Charge".

Book preview

Foreword – by Andy N

I mentioned in my last co-authored book with Amanda - The Lockdown Was All We Could See - everything I have written has always been a reaction to my previous book, just as much as what is going on in my life at the time.

The Lockdown Was All We Could See was an honest collection of poetry written during an almost impossible situation, which time will prove in generations to come, as an incredible but terrifying situation. This challenged us both to change the focus of our work, from the direction we were both aiming to develop further over the Spring of 2020.

18 months later, Covid-19 is still running rampant in Great Britain (or England) even though everything has started to open up again. As I’m typing this, we are rapidly heading into Winter and everything is in a state of flux. It’s uncertain where everything is going next.

After our lockdown book, Amanda produced a number of smaller solo projects in preparation for a much longer project in 2022, and I’ve completed two books of Haiku. I can now see the end in sight for my next major poetry book and perhaps a novel too.

When we started compiling work for The Snow Was All We could See, the earlier pieces were certainly among the most serious in the book, but over time, at least in my case (and I think also with Amanda), the pieces in this book went in a somewhat different direction. It was almost like our writing was leading us somewhere else, without us realising it at the time.

Kudos to our friends in our writing group on Zoom – mainly Mike, Reggie, Antonia and Ant, for all of their encouragement over these months. They encouraged us to try out different styles, with some of the prompts that led to many of the pieces in this collection. I find it incredible to think, looking back at this book