Zoe Brooks
Something In Nothing
Something In Nothing weaves together the lives of various fairytale characters in a contemporary setting to explore universal and difficult issues, in particular the denial of evil.
At its heart is the story of the serial killer Bluebeard and the Luminous Girl. Other characters include the elderly couple Beauty and Beast, the witch Baba Yaga, a non-magical godmother and a useless angel.
ISBN 978-1-0684934-4-7
Paperback
72 pages
£11 +P&P
THE AUTHOR
Zoe Brooks is a writer and performer of poetry from Gloucestershire, where she is a director of the Cheltenham Poetry Festival, leading on the Festival’s year-round online programme. Her long poem for voices Fool's Paradise won the EPIC award for best poetry ebook 2013. Her first collection was Owl Unbound (Indigo Dreams Publishing), and Fool’s Paradise (Black Eyes Publishing) was published as a print book in 2022.
“There is something ancient and earthy running through 'Something in Nothing' yet the poems are also wholly contemporary. This is a world, not so far from our own, where boys may find bones in storm drains and ‘the roots of the river are in the sky'”
~ Angela France
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Zoe Brooks
Owl Unbound
‘Owl Unbound’ examines nature and humanity in a wide range of settings; from a stag beetle on a suburban fence to fossils on a Somerset beach, from a Cotswold roofer “tiptoeing the thin laths” to a bag lady in Covent Garden “dancing at the amplifier's right hand”. Whilst there is tender joy and love in the collection, there is also anger and loss.
