'Love measured in rabbits' - Bear Creek Gazette, issue 3, May 2021
'Walls suitable for girls' bedrooms' - Largehearted Boy, October 2020
'The astronomical menagerie' - The Interpreter's House, issue 75, 2020
'As a child you had a recurring dream...' - Manchester Review issue 23, 2020
'Knitting pattern' - finalist, Quiet Man Dave prize 2020
'Collecting dust' - Lost Balloon journal (July 2020)
‘The correct hanging of game birds’ - X-R-A-Y Literary Journal (June 2020)
‘Facts of matter’ - Highly Commended in the Litro Flash Friday Competition, June 2020
'Waiting for time to catch up' - in issue 21, New Flash Fiction Review
'First man on the moon- - winner, Lunate 500 competition, May 2020
‘Heirlooms’ – LossLit, June 2019
‘The Third Favourite Wife of The Emperor’ – The Casket of Fictional Delights 2019
‘Snuffing Hearts That Burn Too Bright’ – Spelk Fiction, May 2019
‘Your Sons and Daughters Are Beyond’ – Longleaf Review, 2019
‘The names of stars’ – Retreat West, Nominated for Best of the Net 2019
What goes on in the bushes - The Cabinet of Heed, issue 16, January 2019
How can a woman sleep when the Master is in pain? - commended in Bath Flash Fiction Award 2018
Speaking in Tongues - winner of The Casket of Fictional Delights flash fiction competition 2018
The Black Dog of Peterloo, at invisibleworks.co.uk
Look Both Ways, (scroll to page 4) at scribd.com
The Mummy's Tale, at bbc.co.uk
'Now that you are not-you' - The Guardian poem of the week, 16.11.2020
'Planetary wobble' - Consilience, issue 2: Uncertainty
'Long exposure' - Dear Damsels, HOPE issue Sept 2020
‘Auto-da-fe’ - Picaroon Issue 15, March 2019. Please scroll to p. 7
‘Biography of a comet in the body of a dog’ – Riggwelter, issue 21, May 2019. Please scroll to p. 18
'Bede writes a history of the English people' - poem 5.4 of 'Poem of the North'
'A donor’s card', at gettingalongwithgrief.blogspot.com
'The topiary garden', (scroll to page 21) at yumpu.com
'A phase she went through', at melancholyhyperbole.com
'The sum of all meat', at ariadnethread.net
'The ghost of you', at theintima.org
'Dreaming of panthers' / 'Souvenirs', at thelakepoetry.co.uk
'Defacing the currency', at thelakepoetry.co.uk
'Nursery games', at pbqmag.org
'Fixing punctures', at melancholyhyperbole.com
'Rubbing brass', at berfrois.com
I’m honoured – my essay ‘Don’t Fence Me In’ is included in this wonderful collection! (Nine Arches Press, ed Ian Humphreys)
‘What motivates poets in the 21st century? How do they find their voice? What themes and subject matters inspire them? How do they cope with set-backs and deal with success? What keeps them writing?
In Why I Write Poetry twenty-five contemporary poets reflect with insight, wit and wisdom on the writing life, each offering their distinctive take on what inspires and spurs them on to write poetry. Also - individual writing prompts to help you create your own new poetry.’
https://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/why-i-write-poetry.html
A wonderful way to end a difficult year – ‘What Girls Do in the Dark’ selected by Pippa Hennessy as a Poetry Society Best Book of the Year!
https://poetrysociety.org.uk/poetry-news-best-books-of-the-year/
“Finally, Rosie Garland’s What Girls Do in the Dark (Nine Arches) – Garland is a true gothic polymath. This is reflected in her poetry, which roams through astrophysics, war zones, quantum theory, human biology, history, relationships and non-relationships, and more. The poems in What Girls Do in the Dark take this variety to extremes, yet somehow manage to bring concrete details and abstract ideas from all these areas together into a coherent, explosive, dazzling, gorgeous whole.”
– Pippa Hennessy is a bookseller at Five Leaves Bookshop, Nottingham.
Thank you Henry Normal for selecting What Girls Do in the Dark for Northern Soul’s Best Reads of 2021!
Books: Northern Soul’s Best Reads of 2021
Henry Normal, poet and writer
What Girls do in the Dark (Nine Arches Press) by Rosie Garland is my favourite poetry book of the year. Garland was a singer in the 1980s post-punk/goth band The March Violets. More recently, she’s established herself as a poet and novelist with several titles. I had the honour to read with her in Birmingham a while back, so when her new collection was released I was already interested. From the first poem I was captivated. She has a way of keeping one foot tentatively in the world we know with the other searching for a foothold in an unseen or imaginary world. I was inspired and transported by these poems in a way I’ve not experienced since first getting excited by the possibilities of poetry in my teens. I suspect it would not be good form to choose one of my poetry books for this feature but even if it was, I would choose Garland’s What Girls do in the Dark.
https://www.northernsoul.me.uk/books-northern-souls-best-reads-of-2021/
Thank you Vive le Rock magazine, for the great feature on The March Violets!
https://vivelerock.net/product/vive-le-rock-84-motorhead-girlschool-preorder/
Well, look at what happened on Record Store Day UK on July 17th 2021!
The March Violets ‘Big Soul Kiss’ - all the 1980s BBC Sessions in one place.
And PURPLE vinyl too #RSD21 #rsddrops
UPDATE – the entire pressing sold out in 24 hours. Jungle Records are releasing a CD version in 2022… plus more releases planned. Watch this space!
https://www.facebook.com/JungleRecords/