Rosie Garland reading poems from her collection 'Everything Must Go' are now available

Holland Park Press are very excited to announce that six videos of Rosie Garland reading poems from her collection 'Everything Must Go' are now available.

Rosie Garland, author of 'The Palace of Curiosities', recites ‘Fortune teller’, ‘Moratorium’, ‘So Long’, ‘Good Behaviour’, ‘Donor's Card’ and ‘Dignity’, powerful poems describing her battle with throat cancer.
You can listen to the poems on this page http://hollandparkpress.co.uk/magazine_detail.php?magazine_id=245&language=English or through the Holland Park Press YouTube channel.
Listen and get carried along with Rosie’s story.

Here is our book review of 'Everything Must Go', from August 2012:

‘Everything Must Go’

By Rosie Garland Published by Holland Park Press
RRP £8.99 (paperback)
ISBN 9781907320224


Wow. ‘Everything Must Go’ is breath-taking in its laid-bare honesty. Rosie Garland’s poems tell of her battle with cancer from the moment she’s told until she receives the news its in remission. It’s not a pitiful or melodramatic narration, or even negative – Rosie expresses her experiences; her initial numbness and shock, her hair loss, her sickness, the wanting to disappear, the hospital, the pain and weakness, the treatment, the loss of her feminity – it’s heart-breaking but Rosie is so strong in her poems that’s it’s somewhat uplifting. My personal favourites from the collection are ‘Camouflage’ and ‘Dignity’. Quite stunning and bought a tear to my eye.

Highly recommended

Recommended Reads from August 2012

Check out the reviews section of our website for the latest recommended reads - from children's fiction to poetry and classic reads we're sure there is something for everyone. We also welcome your reviews too - email them to 'Reviews' at info@bookapoet.co.uk and we'll let you know when we use it!

Below are the titles we recommended during August 2012: http://www.bookapoet.co.uk/book_reviews/book_reviews/august_2012/

‘After’ by Morris Gleitzman (Puffin)

‘Fire Spell’ by Laura Amy Schlitz (Bloomsbury) (Our Featured Title for the month)

‘Cough in Your Shirt, Bert!’ by Sheralee Hill Iglehart / Illustrated by Carol Brolin (Barny Books)

‘Everything Must Go’ by Rosie Garland (Holland Park Press)

‘Nitty Winnie’ by Laura Owens and Korky Paul (Oxford University Press)

‘Party Disaster’ by Sue Limb (Bloomsbury)

‘The Little Grey Men’ by B.B. (Oxford University Press)
‘The Magic of Mammoth Hollow’ by Linda Whatton / Illustrated by David Sharpe (Barny Books)
‘Naughty Kitty’ by Adam Stower (Templar Publishing) 

'The Devil's Creature in the City of the Dead' by R H Stewart (Barny Books)

 

You can read our reviews and recommendations at 

 

 

September's recommended reads will start to appear on the website from today. A selection of reviews will be published here too, as well as on our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/BookaaPoet) and links from our Twitter account (@bookapoet).

‘Everything Must Go’ By Rosie Garland - new poetry collection

‘Everything Must Go’
By Rosie Garland
Published by Holland Park Press
RRP £8.99 (paperback)
ISBN 9781907320224
Reviewed by Lynsey Evans

Wow. ‘Everything Must Go’ is breath-taking in its laid-bare honesty. Rosie Garland’s poems tell of her battle with cancer from the moment she’s told until she receives the news its in remission. It’s not a pitiful or melodramatic narration, or even negative – Rosie expresses her experiences; her initial numbness and shock, her hair loss, her sickness, the wanting to disappear, the hospital, the pain and weakness, the treatment, the loss of her feminity – it’s heart-breaking but Rosie is so strong in her poems that’s it’s somewhat uplifting. My personal favourites from the collection are ‘Camouflage’ and ‘Dignity’. Quite stunning and bought a tear to my eye.

Highly recommended.

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Rosie Garland 2012 Mslexia Novel Competition Winner releases new poetry collection

Being told you have cancer is a life-changing event. Rosie Garland, writer and performer, didn’t need any tissues when she was told, but later used poetry to come to terms with the disease, treatment and slow recovery.

Her account is not at all melodramatic or tearful, but paints vivid pictures, and her poems have a dynamic and rhythmic uplifting beat, especially when things get tough. Most importantly, she shows how any disease – and cancer especially – attacks your humanity and more specifically your femininity.

Rosie Garland, based in Manchester, is a poet, writer and performance artist. She published four solo poetry collections and her award-winning short stories, poems and essays have been widely anthologised. In March 2012 she won the inaugural Mslexia Novel Competition with her first novel, The Palace of Curiosities and within weeks landed a six-figure book deal with HarperCollins.

Rosie’s new poetry collection Everything Must Go, ISBN 978-1-907320-22-4, 51 pages, is being published by Holland Park Press: http://hollandparkpress.co.uk/book_detail.php?book_id=33.