Between the Words – Sue Lewis
ISBN: 9781788641807
£6.99
Sue Lewis has won previous pamphlet awards and one of the many things that delights about her work is that each new collection pushes the boundaries of language and integrity further. The writing is lucid, precise, the metaphors are precise and fresh, but the effect is to take us within—to interior landscapes where there is not certainty but the constant liminality of life in process, the questions and doubts we contend with, the moments of compassion alongside the bittersweet ache for the lives that might have been, while tending to the life that is. There is not a false word in this exquisite collection as it makes its ‘risky/tender pilgrimage.’
Author biography
Sue Lewis is a South London poet who began to write as a way of reclaiming her confidence after a minor stroke. Her poetry speaks with empathy and insight about how things are; the texture of our lives.
She has been published in poetry magazines, haiku journals and anthologies and was shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize in 2022 and 2023. Her pamphlet Written down in pencil was published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press in 2024 and she has won the Cinnamon Press Pamphlet Award three times, previously with Texture in 2019 and Journey in 2021 and most recently with this pamphlet, Between the Words.