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Sunday, September 23, 2007

A copy of the Templar Anthology arrived in the post this week. It's great to see some of my poems in print - a lovely feeling! Copies are available via the Templar website or Amazon.

http://www.templarpoetry.co.uk/Solitaire.html

I'll be heading up to the Derwent Poetry Festival in October for the launch and to see Simon Armitage and Jean Sprackland, amongst others, read. Details of the Festival are on the Templar website.

: Name: Liz Bassett; Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom

Liz Bassett writes poems about skies and elephants and the occasional ship. In her poems people fall asleep under their duvet and wake up under lines of migrating geese, and in love. Her poems have been placed in the Bridport competition, short listed for the Plough Prize, and been published by The Red Wheelbarrow, Agenda Broadsheet, White Leaf Review, The Guardian Poetry Workshop, and in the anthologies My Mother Threw Knives (Second Light Publications), Solitaire (Templar Poetry)and New Poets from Britain and America (White Leaf Press). She is a reviewer for Sphinx (HappenStance Press). Her pamphlet 'How to Wire a Life for Love' is available from Knucker Press.

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