Zoe Brooks Poet & Writer

Anna Saunders and I both spend a lot of time giving opportunities for poets to read their work, whether online or at the in-Cheltenham festi...

I have a couple of readings coming up to share with you - one on Zoom and one live.  7pm - 8pm  25th May  The first reading is on Zoom at Fi...

  It's the publication date for Fool's Paradise. I'm sending the preorders out this am and feeling horribly nervous as I do so....

  Isabelle Kenyon I do not find self promotion very easy. In fact I cringe and procrastinate everytime I have to do it. Yes, I'm on Face...

  My collection Owl Unbound (pub Indigo Dreams Publishing) was launched on the 23rd October at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival. And I was joi...

Here it is - the cover of my collection Owl Unboun d with Indigo Dreams Publishing. I am really pleased with it. The cover very cleverly ref...

The idea that my poetry collection will be published is becoming more and more real. I have sent off the final copy to Indigo Dreams, togeth...

There is a Czech saying that my friend Hannah regularly quoted at me: "How to make God laugh - tell him your plans ". My plans ...

At Piranha Poetry I was chatting to an old school friend of mine last week and we both commented on how sometimes your life can suddenl...

A young Zoe reading poetry at the Young Arts Centre I have always believed that poetry is primarily a spoken art. It certainly is for...

My mother died at the end of June. I have been spending a lot of my time caring for her and before that my father over the last three ...

Well I have done it, at last. I have started sending my poems to magazines again. When I was younger I was regularly published in  mag...

This review first appeared on my magic realism books blog . "We never speak of it, but here we know the land can t be truste...

I have just submitted my poem Midday Fox for possible inclusion in an anthology.  I have often blogged about my local fox in my Czech b...

For my magic realism review blog I recently read and reviewed  Larque On The Wing  by Nancy Springer. In it a middle-aged woman is for...

I am running a magic realism bloghop again this year. Some twenty blogs are signed up to take part and if last year’s bloghop is anythi...

My poem for voices  Fool’s Paradise  has won the best Poetry Book category in the EPIC ( The Electronic Publishing Industry Coalition...

When Carolyn Howard Johnson reviewed my poetry book  Fool’s Paradise  as “Very experimental. Wholly original” I was surprised. Of cou...