Lauren Colley
Pegging Out
Exploring themes of home and connection, many of these poems are snapshot images – touching, sometimes humorous depictions of domestic life observed from windows or heard through a shared bathroom wall. Others look beyond this, directing our line of sight far out across the rooftops ‘until the town edge tatters’ and the natural world continues regardless, to ‘restitch’.
ISBN 978-1-912876-54-9
Paperback
36 pages
£6.00 +P&P
THE AUTHOR
After studying English literature at Cambridge, Lauren returned to Nottingham for a Creative Writing MA and remains a literary research student at Nottingham University.
Lauren’s work has appeared in journals including New Walk, Acumen, The Rialto and Stand; she was mentored after winning the UNESCO-funded Writing the Contemporary prize and subsequent publication.
This debut and prize-winning pamphlet reveals a fascination with what ‘home’ means. Along with reading, study and speculating on neighbours, she will always love the satisfaction of ‘pegging out’.