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Annie Fisher

Annie Fisher’s background is in primary education, initially as a teacher and later as an English adviser. Now semi-retired she writes poetry for both adults and children and sometimes works as a storyteller in schools. She has had two pamphlets published with HappenStance Press: Infinite in all Perfections (2016) and The Deal (2020), and one recently from Mariscat Press: Missing the Man Next Door (2024). She is a member of Fire River Poets, Taunton 

    Oil painting in mostly grey and blue showing a jug and two bowls on a shelf

    Learning about loss

    Annie Fisher reviews The Wind and the Rain by Anthony Wilson (Blue Diode Press, 2023)
    A window at night with twilight streaming through. Or it could be a streetlight. Twilight is more poetic though, innit?

    The art of loneliness

    Annie Fisher reviews Night Window by Ian Seed (Shearsman, 2024)
    The title of the book in seraph font on a an apricot background. Could do better.

    In the ‘quiet coach’

    Annie Fisher reviews Surprising the Misses McRuvie by Eleanor Livingstone (Red Squirrel Press, 2023)
    Image of a white skull on a black background. The skull has a pink flower in the right eye socket.

    Say I was born in peacetime

    Annie Fisher reviews Ruin, Blossom by John Burnside (Cape, 2024)
    A painted book cover with a blue background. A thick swirling dark blue brush stroke bisects the page horizontally. three partial circles hover in the background like alien planets. Light blue, mid blue and (nope not another blue) red.

    Pangolins and Plainsong

    Annie Fisher reviews Words of Mercury by Alasdair Paterson (Shearsman Books, 2024)
    A photograph of a man wearing a spotless white shirt, a paisley tie and a beige cardigan. Only the lower half of the face is visible,

    Soldier, astronaut, photographer, accountant … poet

    Annie Fisher reviews The Remaining Men by Martin Figura (Cinnamon Press, 2024)
    Close up photo of a white sheeps head. We can mostly see the eye.

    Tiny shorts the colour of meringues

    Annie Fisher reviews Women in Comfortable Shoes by Selima Hill (Bloodaxe Books, 2023)
    A composite image of three brightly coloured children's poetry book covers.

    Danger leaps from off the page

    Annie Fisher looks at some of the best new poetry collections for children
    Drawing of a cow with wings on a pink background. It is saying 'Bong' and it's by Spike Milligan.

    Poetry for children: where do we start?

    Annie Fisher gathers together the best children's poetry, and the best children's poetry anthologies
    What does Annie Fisher say?

    What does Annie Fisher say?

    I write reviews for pleasure and to broaden my reading, but I only review collections I like ...
    An old black and white photo of two kids, one older boy and a younger girl.

    Catch the heart off guard and blow it open

    Annie Fisher reviews Skin & Blister by Blake Morrison (Mariscat, 2023)
    Close up graphic of a green leaf. It is partially transparent on a white background, and the veins running through the leaf are clearly visible.

    Drawing the clean light in and doing good

    Annie Fisher reviews The Bigger Picture by D. A. Prince (HappenStance, 2022)
    Looking through an underpass. A house can be discerned through distant mist.

    Tangerine seethe beneath coal crackle

    Annie Fisher reviews Relativism by Mary Ford Neal (Taproot Press, 2022)
    painting of a verdant hillside with a peacock in the foreground in front of some purple flowers

    That first bright garden

    Annie Fisher reviews Rain Tree by Ruth Sharman (Templar, 2022)
    A pastel hued watercolour of two older people in a squashy bed/ A woman on the left and a man on the right. They are wearing pyjamas and appear to be sleeping in a loose embrace

    He turns to her, she turns to him

    Annie Fisher reviews Pearls: the complete Mr and Mrs Philpott poems by Helena Nelson (HappenStance, 2022)
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    30/09/2022

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