Deborah Harvey
Love the Albatross
Love the Albatross is a meditation on inter-generational relationships, estrangement and silence, in which unreliable narrators communicate through messages in bottles, birds and dreams. Fragmented memories assume mythological status, and the stories we tell ourselves to justify our actions escape their labyrinths and run wild.
ISBN 978-1-912876-85-3
Paperback
80 pages
£11 + P&P
THE AUTHOR
Bristol poet Deborah Harvey is a co-founder of the Leaping Word poetry consultancy and has an MA in Creative Writing from Manchester Writing School. Deborah’s previous five poetry collections were also published by Indigo Dreams, with her historical novel, Dart, under their ‘Tamar Books’ imprint.
Love the Albatross is her sixth collection.
"In 'Love the Albatross' estrangement, transformation and albatross are expertly woven together, with Harvey bearing witness to the nuance, complexity, and devastation inherent in this most ruinous of losses. I found these poems authentic, liberating and transformative. Nothing is more evocative than the feeling that a writer has gone back in time with the reader, as witness and companion.”
~ Chaucer Cameron
Cover artwork and illustrations ©Katie Marland 2024
Deborah Harvey
Learning Finity
How much of the past, its people and memories, stay imprinted on the landscape? Are the trees lining the nave of a bombed-out church busy rebuilding it? And does the valerian that thrusts through cracks in walls on streets climbing from the city centre remember when the hillside was woodland called Fockynggrove, rising beyond the city walls and a very well frequented spot indeed? Yes, everything is mutable, but stories persist.
ISBN 978-1-912876-62-4
Paperback
72 pages
£10 + P&P
‘Deborah Harvey’s … poems are raw and true. She is the real thing.’
~ Hugo Williams
Deborah Harvey
The Shadow Factory
As a child, Deborah Harvey was fascinated by the rollsign of the 98 bus that gave its destination as The Shadow Factory, but as her stop came before the terminus, she never reached it, and an intimation of disappointment prevented her from asking what was made there. As a result, The Shadow Factory became a warehouse of wishes and unrealised dreams, a metaphor for life and death, and eventually this collection of poems that explore childhood, memory and the twilight of those household gods we call parents.
