Between Coastal Rocks & Softer Places

This debut poetry collection, Between Coastal Rocks & Softer Places, traverses a physical and emotional landscape. Developed over several decades, Jen writes with visual sentience, forms and structure that are likely to resonate inversely amongst readers, promoting a variety of interpretations. Her illustrations are designed to elaborate on certain poems, yet may be engaging as stand-alone works of whimsey.

‘I will return again and again to this poetry collection as one should, there is something to be found anew each time.’
Nanette Fox, Author of "Finding Izzy"

The opening poem, Waterlogged, along with two artworks, Night Wharf and Pink Horizon, have been featured in dyst Literary Journal issue #6, released 30 June 2021.

From the wispy winds of, ‘I Sail’, to the forlorn, ‘Tick of the Clock’, to a black cat tour in an English cemetery, ‘The Resting place at Highgate’. Other works will take you to the water, a place of magic colours, and sacrament, a reverence…or loss…

Shifts in mood, voice and rhythm allow for short episodes, some with ironic humour. Intertwined narratives, for light or folly, are just that.

Not so unique are stories of family, meant for thinking deeply.