Goodreads

Broadcasting is now 'live' on goodreads, so that's good. Oh & it  has travelled a bit since last I wrote: Aldeburgh Poetry festival, NAWE writing conference in York amongst other spots. A bit of Norfolk near the Ouse & the Suffolk seaside!

Blurb and EDP review 17/8/13

The EDP (Eastern Daily Press) Archant Publications will feature Broadcasting in its reviews this weekend, going to press/published 17 August.

In the meantime, and for those of you who haven't read the back cover, here's what other poets say:
'Broadcasting is less about remembrance than the way we forget... the slow erasure of local customs, sayings and memories. Just as the bricks and mortar of once-loved homes are taken back by the landscape, "asleep with bramble"; what's left are glimpses and fragments – the smell of russet apples, the gritty texture of rabbit picked from the bone, the "sweet twirl" of a folk dance – but these only serve to emphasise the sense of absence in these poignant poems (which) reveal the hidden casualties of a war we thought we knew.'
- Esther Morgan, Bloodaxe poet (Grace, Beyond Calling Distance)

'Andrea Holland's poems treat their historical material with respect - but it is the easy respect of true acquaintance. She re-imagines the scenes of country life in wartime with vivid, present detail that grows from a love of the landscape as well as research, and is animated by a special sensitivity to loss. Far from distancing the place and people, her inventive, even playful language gives them back their life' - Philip Gross (T.S. Eliot award winning poet, inc The Water Table, Deep Field, The Egg of Zero, Mappa Mundi)

Sold out!

Broadcasting is sold out! Thankyou for your support...2nd print run is go!

Chanelling Nineteen Forty Two

At Broadcasting launch

Post launch satisfaction

Happily a good crowd at the Norwich launch of Broadcasting at Cafe Writers (10/6/13). Photos from the book (Mrs Starling et al) made an appearance on screen & the poet's 'Victory Rolls' (1940's hair-do) also set the scene...

Broadcasting - launch on Monday 10 June, Norwich

'Broadcasting' 

Launching on Monday!

Cafe Writers 10th June 2013 @ Take Five, Tombland, Norwich. 

Start time 7.30pm. Entrance £2 - there will be open mic followed by readings.

Andrea Holland - book launch

Andrea was the winner of the 2012 Norfolk Commission for Poetry. Her first collection Borrowed, was published by Smith/Doorstop in 2007, as first-stage winner of The Poetry Business annual poetry contest. Her writing has appeared in journals such as Mslexia, The North, Rialto, Smith's Knoll and Other Poetry as well as a number in the U.S.A where she lived for many years. She has collaborated with visual artists on several commissioned projects and published articles on writing and visual art. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and for Norfolk Adult Education, and lives in Norwich with her sons

 Tim Cockburn

Tim Cockburn was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire in 1985. He studied Creative Writing at the then Norwich School of Art and Design, and at the University of East Anglia. His debut pamphlet, Appearances in the Bentinck Hotel, was published in 2012 by Salt. He lives and works in Norwich.

For more information on Broadcasting see http://cafewriters.awardspace.com/Commission%20Home%20Page.htm

for dates of readings (and other Andrea stuff) see www.andreacholland.co.uk

Onward!

Broadcasting was successfully launched last Saturday 11 May, at the Poetry-next-the-Sea festival in Wells (next-the-sea) Norfolk...The audience was very receptive with many people commenting after my reading that they had no idea about the story of the requisition.
(Sold lots of books too!)

The next launch is in Norwich on 10 June for Cafe Writers, Take 5 on Tombland, 7.30 start with Tim Cockburn (pamphlet with Faber) opening for me. ALL WELCOME.

Now to get some copies of Broadcasting signed, wrapped and sent to long distance friends!

Thanks to all at Wells and beyond for such tremendous support during and post-launch.

Wells next the sea sights post poetry

Boats anchored, book launched! Poetry-next-the-sea, Wells, Norfolk: 11/5/13

off the press!

'Broadcasting' has just made it from the Cornish printers to the Suffolk publishers...tomorrow it should be in this Norfolk poet's hands, oh happy day!

Independent Newspaper listings

Today's Independent Newspaper, weekend listings includes Poetry-Next-The-Sea festival readings by Andrea Holland - and some other rather well known poets including Wendy Cope, Sue Hubbard, Lachlan Mackinnon, Martyn Crucefix and Heidi Williamson!

Dates	Fri 10th May to Sun 12th May 2013
Location	The Maltings, Staithe Street, Wells
Website	www.poetry-next-the-sea.com
Email	fmfraser@bmkt.freeserve.co.uk

Final book cover, with title

8 days til launch of Broadcasting... 

strewn words garnered by Gatehouse Press

Programme: Saturday May 11th, 2013

9.30 am	Alderman Peel High School Event(Entry to this event is FREE, but donations are invited)
11.00 am	Andrea Holland, with PNTS Undergraduate Prize Winner,and Open Competition Winners
2.00 pm	Martyn Crucefix and Sue Hubbard
5.00 pm	21 years Promoting Poetry: William Sieghart, founder of the Forward Prize, in conversation with Tim Leese
6.00 pm – 7.45 pm	Poetry Pharmacy, with William SieghartPLACES LIMITED - first-come, first-served
8.00 pm	Wendy Cope and Lachlan Mackinnon full details at http://www.poetry-next-the-sea.com/index.html

Cover of Broadcasting (Blitz-Ghosted by Nick Stone of Starfish Design)

Broadcasting: a brief overview

The aim of Broadcasting, as a collection of poems, is to honour the residents of five lost villages in the 18,000 acres north of Thetford chosen by the War Office in June 1942 for D-Day training; consequently these villages (and several parishes) were requisitioned by the armed forces and over 1000 residents were given less than twenty days to leave their land and homes. 

The poems are intended to illuminate significant episode in East Anglian history which has nevertheless been almost entirely forgotten by the subsequent two generations. 

From the Introduction to Broadcasting:


The names of villages and the people who had to leave their homes in July 1942 became real to me after my second visit to the Thetford STANTA (Stanford Training Area) military base in May 2012. In a chilly Nissan hut I spent hours staring at black and white photos which had been donated to STANTA by ex-residents; each wall of the room had the name of one of the villages above it: Stanford, West Tofts, Sturston, Tottington, Buckenham Tofts. 

I knew that I would have to write about both real and imaginary villagers who gave up their homes and their land, for what would have been described as ‘the war effort’. So in that cold Nissan hut at STANTA, many of the villagers in photos stuck on the walls began to talk to me...

Broadcasting is published in early May by Gatehouse Press. Signed copies are available: contact Andrea via andrea.holland@uea.ac.uk

Requisition: Tottington Post Office 2012, STANTA, Norfolk

Tottington Post Office 2012