Transformations

So the big news is that the marvellous Hedgehog Press is about to publish my pamphlet of poems inspired by the art of Elisabeth Frink. Frink spent the last ten years of her life in Dorset and we have the largest collection of Frink artefacts in the country at the Dorset Museum where I volunteer. I find her work has real power. It encouraged me to explore the relationships between humans and the animal world, and the relationships between humans and power, humans and violence.

I am really proud of these poems and when Mark at Hedgehog sent me the proofs last week I was absolutely thrilled. The cover is particularly special. Frink produced a number of drawings and prints of the Green Man and the image is an apt one. Frink spent her artistic life transforming her experience of the world into something unique and I have taken my emotional responses to that art and in turn transformed it into poetry.

I am immensely grateful to the family of Elisabeth Frink who gave permission for me to use an image of her work on the cover and also grateful to Dorset Museum and Liz Selby, the interim director, who offered their photograph of the Green Man to me. I hope you like as much as I do.

You can order via the Hedgehog website or direct from me and I will sign it. Contact me via X (@Beth Brooke8) or email bethbrooke@me.com.