Zoe Brooks Poet & Writer

As a follow-up to my last post I have recorded readings of four of my poems. They are to be found in the Recordings page here: https://zoebr...

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 ...

Today I had an email telling me that I have just had a poem accepted by another magazine (Northampton Poetry Review), which reminded that I ...

Buzzwords happens every month, usually on the first Sunday, at the Exmouth Arms in Cheltenham. The website is here:  http://buzzwordspoetry...

This poem was first published in Pennine Platform magazine. It remains one of my favourites. MY GRANDFATHER AND UNCLE My grandfat...

Here's another review that appeared on my magic realism blog . Like his acclaimed Mandeville (2008), Matthew Francis's fourth F...