Poetry

What Girls Do in the Dark – Nine Arches Press Rosie Garland’s dauntless and enthralling new poetry collection, What Girls Do in the Dark, invites us to leap into deep space - across a universe where light, names, place and time become the “distance between things that stand like sisters”.…
Now available!Rosie Garland’s new collection of poems, ‘As In Judy’. Flapjack Press, 2016 I wish to express heartfelt gratitude to Char March for her generous editorial input, without which this collection would be far weaker.And to Ruth Fainlight, for her inspiring suggestion that ‘As In Judy’ would make a great…
Things I Did While I Was Dead - Flapjack Press, 2010 Click to purchase book at Flapjack Press Reviews: ‘Peerless and passionate award-winning poetry’ Powerfully articulating themes as diverse as relationships, childhood, serial-killers and gender, this passionate and thought-provoking collection showcases Rosie's affecting and award-winning poetry. "Candid, tender and surprising,…
Everything Must Go Everything Must Go - Holland Park Press, 2012 Read one of the poems here: A donor’s card "There’s nothing here that I’ll be needing.I don’t do souvenirs. No grave-goods,no grave. No-one will do their back indigging me a hole; nor have the job of unpeeling rotten carnations…
 OUT OF PRINT Creatures of the Night - performance poetry Published by purpleprosepress, 2003 under Rosie Garland's stage name of Rosie Lugosi. Published as part of Rosie's residency at 'Creatures of the Night' at greenroom Manchester, Manchester's longest running poetry slam.Including poems such as 'Two Queens', published in Mslexia magazine.…
Coming Out At Night - performance poetry Published by purpleprosepress, 2005 under Rosie Garland's stage name of Rosie Lugosi Poem excerpt – “Lights Go Out The lights go out; there's a rustle of silk at the corner of earshotThe dark swims in, and ink closes over your headBack row or…