Vivienne Tregenza

Conversations with Magic Stones

Conversations with Magic Stones commemorates the life and work of Barbara Hepworth, fifty years after her death in a fire at her home in St Ives. It goes on to explore the Hepworth themes of figures in the landscape, loss, resilience and transformation, moving from the poet’s home in West Cornwall to the Isles of Scilly and back again.

ISBN 978-1-912876-96-9

Paperback

66 pages

£10.00 + P&P

THE AUTHOR

Vivienne Tregenza won the Formal Poetry Prize at Poetry on the Lake, Orta, Italy and has been placed or shortlisted in competitions including the Bridport, Frogmore, Hippocrates, Second Light, Ver Poets and Welsh Poetry Prizes. In 2024 she was shortlisted for the Cinnamon Press ‘New Voices’ Award and also highly commended in the Geoff Stevens Memorial Poetry Prize. Vivienne is well-published in UK journals..

‘Part celebration of Barbara Hepworth’s hard-fought achievements as a woman artist, part exploration of the inward creative life itself, these shining, beautiful poems meditate on love, mothering, attachment and solitude set within their shared Cornish landscape, granite-strong, wind-strung.’

~ Pippa Little

'A sunlit, scrubbed and chiselled conversation between a poet and a sculptor, between now and then, linked by motherhood and love.’

~ Maitreyabandhu

'Like Hepworth’s art, these poems open to what lies beyond: their lasting impression is of light – much light – and epiphany.’

~ Rosie Jackson

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Publication date: 22nd September 2025