Pressed Flowers
A poetry anthology coordinated by Worcestershire Poet Laureate Charley Barnes and Polly Stretton of Black Pear Press as a result of sharing sunflower poems. Charley’s sunflower poem ‘Helianthus Forest’ won her the laureateship in 2019 and features in the anthology.
Charley says, ‘We put our heads together and decided that, given the many talented poets we know, we could stitch a whole pamphlet of these floral pieces if we tried.
Polly and I invited poets to participate in the project and, one email at a time, we leapt for joy when each person agreed…it’s been an utter joy to work with the poets
featured in this collection.’
Pressed Flowers was launched at Parks Cafe in Droitwich in November 2019.
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The BPP Short Story Competition Anthology 2016 and Anne Wilson’s On The Day Of The Dead took first prize and became the title of the anthology – Graeme Hall took second place with The Photographer.
On The Day Of The Dead And Other Stories
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The anthology is available as an eBook: click here.
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Seaglass And Other Stories
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Seaglass is available as an eBook: click here.
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Short Stories From Black Pear: Vol 1
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Also available as an eBook click here.
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These four pamphlets, compiled between 2016-2018, have taken much time to combine, edit and publish. They are now available only as eBooks at a nominal price.
In order of appearance:
The Unremembered––World War One’s Army of Workers––The British Story—A Living Memory Project
Motherhood, Loss And The First World War
All now available only as eBooks
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