Jackie Biggs

Breakfast in Bed

ISBN 978-1-912876-11-2

Paperback

56 pages

£8.99 +P&P

THE AUTHOR

‘Breakfast in Bed’ is Jackie’s second poetry collection. Her first, ‘The Spaces in Between’, was published in 2015. Jackie’s poetry has appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, both in print and online. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She reads her work regularly at spoken word events and is a member of the Rockhoppers (Coast to Coast Poets) performance group. Jackie lives in West Wales.

Love arrives in an array of flavours, scents and colours. Taste it in food and nature: in honey, ice-cream-sundae, salt of the sea, fresh ripe strawberries. Explore the love of a small child for her parents, a mother for a lost baby, a family for their father. Romance and eroticism, love for self, feelings encountered when love is lost, withheld or twisted are here to experience too.

“‘Breakfast in Bed’ invites us into a world of shared intimacies, poems where food is love and love is food, comforting and sensual. Desire hovers over a bowl of strawberries. Times past and times present blend, as childhood memories and deep hurts urge the imagination to find comfort and sustenance in the world around us. These are poems for our times, when it is the small things that matter, and love above all.”

Maggie Harris

“Precise and elegiac, these poems distil memories with an acute luminosity. Like a fly caught in amber, Jackie Biggs captures the chance moment or fleeting reflection in luscious colour and detail, resulting in a quiet but effective provocation of the senses.”

Kaite O’Reilly