I was sitting at my desk wondering what to write so I cut a sharon fruit in half. The result was The Worshipful Company of Pomegranate Slicers (Spread the Word, 2005). Maggie Gee selected it as a Book of the Year in the New Statesman, saying 'it fizzes with intelligence, energy and linguistic invention'.

 

 

The Poetry Book Society also selected it for review, saying:

 

'The Worshipful Company of Pomegranate Slicers contains work ranging across sestina, haiku, prose shorts, sonnet and villanelle, with a vein of urban surrealism running through several pieces...she also raises environmental concerns, balancing the fate of a butterfly on Tottenham Court Road with that of a whale in the Thames. The sustained inventiveness of the title poem shows her embracing the mythic, the surreal, the tenderly precise and the grittily colloquial. She is a writer to watch; this enjoyable pamphlet is a staging post to her first full collection.' PBS Bulletin