Both East and West Sussex enjoy a remarkable literary past.
Their list of legendary writers and poets includes Hilaire Belloc, William
Blake, HG Wells, Lord Tennyson and a host of other illustrious characters who
once lived and worked in this area.
In modern times, numerous members of the prestigious Society of
Women Writers & Journalists have excelled themselves in publishing their
best-selling books across all genres. The latest SCRIPTORA published collection of poetry emanates from Hove
resident, 98-year-old poet, Finola Holiday, whose work spans a lifetime of
award-winning publication.
Finola has long enjoyed success in regional and international
poetry competitions. She won the Sussex Poet of the Year prize and the Edna
Bourne-Jones Cup – an award of the Downland Poets Eastbourne - as well as the
Slipstream and Ver Poets competitions, and on three occasions, the prestigious
SWWJ Lady Elizabeth Longford.
A Nest of Tigers is the title of Finola’s latest collection of
poetry, crafted over years spent in remote places in different continents.
Some of her poetry belongs to the landscape of art and others to the
tangible world of tide and change, while others exist only as images reflected
in a darker glass. Finola’s latest eclectic work has brought reviews from
respected leading poets:
Susan Skinner: Finola Holiday presents the people or the
objects in her poems with an eye for enchantment and an ear for rhythm that
combine to give her poems an appealing vision.”
Stella Davis: They are stand-alone good, and clearly the work
of a poet who knows what she is doing! A good strong voice with things
to say and a confident sense of form in which to express them.
Publisher: SWWJ/SCRIPTORA (in association with the SWWJ
1 Comments:
Thank you, Sylvia, for your brilliant appraisal of the new SCRIPTORA book.
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