Monday 21 November 2016

It's back in print! Just picked up 4th print run of 'Broadcasting'. It's good to hold the book in my hands after some time; I have my own copy (and one for partner and each son, of course) but I've not had a little pile of them on my desk for quite a while. They look at home there, except I'd love for most of them to go out a little further into the world. If you'd like a copy, they're available to buy directly from me, or via www.gatehousepress.com

Thursday 6 March 2014

Broadcasting now available in paperback!


You can purchase the paperback for £7.50 from Gatehouse Press or Jarrolds, Norwich or Waterstones UEA, Norwich

http://www.gatehousepress.com


Photo from Eastern Daily Press, 4/3/14

Taken 1/3/14 at Andrea's reading from Broadcasting at Watton Library. The event also included the poetry competition winners prizes from the Breckland Book Festival.

Friday 6 December 2013

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!

Tuesday 13 August 2013

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 FieldThe Egg of Zero, Mappa Mundi)

Saturday 3 August 2013

Sold out!

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