Breakfast in Bed

I am tempted today to invite people to come and enjoy ‘Breakfast in Bed’ with me, but I’m not that bold, although some of the poems in my new book are quite bold – and I will be reading some of them out at various events over the next few months.

I’m delighted that my second poetry collection, ‘Breakfast in Bed’ is published today by Indigo Dreams Publishing.

The first poem in the book (see below) invites the reader to spend an hour or so adrift …  contemplating and reflecting on many ideas and feelings around the idea of ‘love’.

This is from the back cover:

‘Love arrives in an array of flavours, scents and colours. Taste it in food and nature: in honey, ice-cream-sundae, salt of the sea, fresh ripe strawberries.  Explore the love of a small child for her parents, a mother for a lost baby, a family for their father. Romance and eroticism, love for self, feelings encountered when love is lost, withheld or twisted are here to experience too.’

For more information about the book, including generous endorsements from writing colleagues Maggie Harris and Kaite O’Reilly, see the publisher’s website: https://www.indigodreams.co.uk/jackie-biggs/4594692749

Copies are available mail order from them, or direct from me at readings.  My main launch event is on Wednesday, October 16^th, at The Cellar Bar, Cardigan SA43 1HU. 7.30pm to 9pm. Free entry and delicious nibbles. All welcome.

The new collection begins:

Alone and together

A city that snares

slow rhythms

(Federico Garcia Lorca)

A river flows through

afternoon’s slow heat,

Lorca’s pace

                (together and alone

                juntos y solo)

babble at café tables

rises and drops into shadow

by the waterside

sun falls through trees,

the flicker of fresh leaves

in green spring

                (solo y juntos

                alone and together)

wine is red, time is yellow

the rhythm of the river is ours

for this hour adrift