Alison Lock - Poet, Writer

'Like a gentle voice in your ear,
these poems speak of love and life and pain and war
with words so precisely-chosen they will make you tremble' - Laura Sheridan.

Above the Parapet

 

    The world is on a cusp, hovering between the familiar and the dystopian.

    With humour and compassion we follow these characters as they are sucked into a slipstream of ordinary events and unusual happenings: a woman hears her roses crying as the ash begins to fall, a girl with hearing loss is more at home with bugs. There's a secret inside a pony, an occasional angel, a swarm of flying fish, and then there is the dog. And all the while, the natural world is taking an ominous turn.

 

'Above the Parapet'- To be published by Indigo

Dreams Publishing 2013.

 - Looking beyond the

everyday to invoke the

magic of the imagination

with characters that are

balanced at the edges of

life.

- Stories published by Sentinel

Champions, Momaya Press

Awards, Bridge House

Publishing, Onward Writing.