Slow Things: Poems About Slow Things

By Rachel Piercey and Emma Dai'an Wright

What's so good about being fast? Sometimes a little patience goes a long way, and a slow thing can be just what you need. Slow walks, slow thoughts and slow afternoons in the sun provide inspiration for the poets in Slow Things, an anthology which celebrates taking life at a leisurely pace and existing in the present. As ice, traffic and a giant wooden boulder all advance with a soothing inevitability, the poets invite us to see the beauty in the accretion of tea-stains in a teapot and the unwavering stare of a loris.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Emma Press
• Release date: Jun 17, 2015
• ISBN: 9781910139219

Emma Dai'an Wright

Emma Dai'an Wright (1986) is a British-Chinese-Vietnamese publisher and illustrator. She worked in ebook production at Orion Publishing Group before leaving in 2012 to set up The Emma Press with the support of the Prince's Trust. She has since published over 500 writers across more than 70 books, including poetry anthologies for adults and children, short stories, and translations. In 2016 The Emma Press won the Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlet Publishers. She lives in Birmingham.

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Slow Things

Poems about Slow Things

Edited by Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright

With poems from Juana Adcock, Elizabeth Barrett, Alison Brackenbury, Cameron Brady-Turner,

Charlotte Buckley, Kay Buckley, George David Clark, Geraldine Clarkson, Catherine Temma Davidson, Alexandra Davis, Isobel Dixon, Suzanna Fitzpatrick, Caroline Gill, Linda Goulden,

Charlotte Higgins, Paul Howarth, Alex Josephy, Anna Kisby, Gill Learner, Michael Mackay, Char March, Sarah Miles, Sara Nesbitt Gibbons, Alun Robert, Ben Rogers, Lawrence Schimel, Jessica Schouela, Di Slaney, Rob Walton, Lucy Williams and Simon Williams. Illustrated by Emma Wright.

Illustrated by Emma Wright.

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Copyright

First published in Great Britain in 2015

by the Emma Press Ltd

Poems copyright © individual copyright holders 2015

Selection copyright © Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright 2015

Illustrations and introduction copyright © Emma Wright 2015

All rights reserved.

The right of Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright to be identified as the editors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

eISBN 9781910139219

Print ISBN 9781910139165

A CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library.

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Contents

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Foreword by Emma Wright

Ellon, by Isobel Dixon

In October in the Kitchen I Listen to My Son, by Catherine Temma Davidson

Object Handling, by Charlotte Higgins

When It Hit Me It Was Slow, It Was Multiple, by Jessica Schouela

dining, by Rob Walton

Cleaning the Teapot, by Lawrence Schimel

10:15, by Ben Rogers

Fish House, by Simon Williams

Weekend, by Alexandra Davis

Rhaeadr, by Anna Kisby

Friday afternoon, by Alison Brackenbury

At Limekiln Dock, by Linda Goulden

Colour Job, by Suzanna Fitzpatrick

Y Gwdihŵ, by Lucy Williams

Ice Well, by Charlotte Buckley

Waking Up the Stones, by Juana Adcock

L’Ospedale, by Alex Josephy

Sign at the Start of the Road, by Sara Nesbitt Gibbons

What Great Speed In Guernsey, by Alun Robert

That water, by Di Slaney

Mid-Atlantic Ridge, by Char March

Dear Loris, by Caroline Gill

Stuck in a Traffic Jam on the M25, by Sarah Miles

Ode to Getting On, by Cameron Brady-Turner

You’ll Get to Know Time, by Paul Howarth

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