'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
Night Shifts - shortlisted for the Dorset Fiction Award 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
'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
Thrilled that 'Now that you are not-you' is Guardian Poem of the Week!
"A very modern, secular kind of elegy reflects on death with a surprising lightness" - Carol Rumens
"This week’s poem is from What Girls Do in the Dark, the latest collection by the multi-talented Rosie Garland. It stands alone, while extending the narrative of the short poem that immediately precedes it, Stargazer. The setting of Stargazer is a hospital bedside, where the dying patient’s visitor must navigate “the vertigo tilt / of old words like spread, outlook, time.” That poem ends with the metaphors that will be reconfigured in Now that you are not-you. “Doctors / murmur the names of new constellations / - astrocyte, hippocampus, glioblastoma – and calculate / the growth of nebulae; this rising tide of cells that climbs / the Milky Way of the spine to flood your head with light.”
Read the whole article here...
7.30pm GMT
Join us to celebrate the launch of What Girls Do in the Dark by Rosie Garland, with guests Tania Hershman & Ian Humphreys
About this Event
Join Rosie Garland, plus guest writers Tania Hershman & Ian Humphreys to celebrate the publication of Rosie's new poetry collection What Girls Do in the Dark.
Thursday 12th November 7.30pm (GMT)
This event will be streamed live & can be viewed now, through the Nine Arches Press YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Z7yq1Ey_U&feature=youtu.be
I thought it wasn't possible to feel any more thrilled about joining Nine Arches Press
- then I see the stunning cover of my new poetry collection, 'What Girls Do In The Dark'.
Out October 2020
https://www.ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/what-girls-do-in-the-dark.html
Dystopian classics to modern crime - Nine must-read Manchester novels
“Fantasy, romance, sci-fi, comedy…we’ve got a genre for everyone
There’s a very good reason Manchester is a UNESCO City of Literature, as we highlighted before its bid to join the prestigious network in 2017. Innovative publishers, diverse bookshops and a lively events scene make it an unrivalled literary melting pot.
Rosie Garland’s The Night Brother is our historical highlight
Ever the entertainer, Rosie Garland sung in post-punk band The March Violets and now performs ‘twisted cabaret’ as Rosie Lugosi the Vampire Queen. But she’s also a literary maverick with an array of essays, short stories and poetry to her name (much of which she also reads at spoken words events citywide) and three acclaimed novels. Her latest, The Night Brother, navigates themes of gender and identity through two siblings in Victorian Manchester. Rich and Gothic, it’s a must for fans of Angela Carter.”
https://confidentials.com/manchester/dystopian-classics-to-modern-crime-nine-must-read-manchester-novels
An unexpected & encouraging piece of news!
Northern Soul has selected 'The Night Brother' as a Best Northern Read
Desmond Bullen, Northern Soul writer
“In days that can seem desolate and uncertain, there’s a lot to be said for windows into a better world and, ultimately, joyfully, that is exactly the view that The Night Brother by Rosie Garland affords. Not that its window seat is cheaply achieved. Far from it.
Rooted with disbelief-suspending specificity in Manchester at the end of the 19th century, Garland’s novel blossoms compellingly from the exquisite simplicity of its central conceit, one which owes the tiniest debt to the 1971 horror film Dr. Jekyll And Sister Hyde. Edie and her brother Gnome are joined in a very particular symbiosis, so that their singular sibling rivalry threatens to be the undoing of both. Themes that could be leaden in other hands emerge from the premise with a beautiful lightness of touch, developing into a persuasive fable of inclusivity and self-acceptance. This is a book that sings a rainbow at its end.”
https://www.northernsoul.me.uk/books-best-northern-reads-part-one/