Sarah Wimbush is a Leeds poet who hails from Doncaster. Her debut poetry pamphlet, Bloodlines, won the Mslexia/PBS Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2019. It was published in 2020 by Seren and shortlisted in the Michael Marks Awards. In 2020 she was a winner in The Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet Competition with The Last Dinosaur in Doncaster, published by Smith|Doorstop in 2021. Her poems have appeared in Brittle Star, The Interpreter’s House and Stand, among others, and have been highly placed in a number of single poem competitions, including 1st prize in the Mslexia, 2nd in the Ledbury and 3rd in The Plough. She is a member of York Stanza and Doncaster Read 2 Write, and received a Northern Writers’ Award in 2019. Her first book-length collection, Shelling Peas with My Grandmother in the Gorgiolands, is published by Bloodaxe in 2022.

There is a Romany saying, We are all one: all who are with us are ourselves: Sarah Wimbush’s collection draws us into the world of Travellers with linguistic panache and delight.

• I11 House12 White Cottage13 Shelling Peas with My Grandmother in the Gorgiolands14 Mother Tongue16 Dukkering17 Carroty Kate 18 Gran Violet Applies a Poultice19 Gal20 The Hedgehog’s Tale21 John Thomas22 Pitched early mornin’ at encampment o’ Gypsy king Esau Smith23 Scrapping at Marshall’s Engineering, Gainsborough24 I can see Sandbeck Hall25 Them Dunstan Kids26 Our Jud27 Threshin’28 Straw Ticks29 Bedsheet30 Meat Puddin’31 Laneham Ferry32 The Bittern33 The Calling Basket34 A Sund’y in Worksop35 Late Afternoon by a Hedge36 Census 191137 Earring38 The Ring39 Walking Girl40 The Astronaut Who Came to Tea42 In the Library43 Gifts44 BloodlinesII46 Pilgrim Queens47 Things My Mother Taught Me48 Inside Lingerie49 2:15 at Doncaster50 The Pencil Sharpener51 Giant Leaping52 I learned to drive in a metallic blue Ford Capri53 Visiting My Aunt on Her Birthday, 1st September 197954 Uncle Reg55 Between Mary Berry’s Baking Bible and My Class Enjoys Cooking56 Rebel57 A Spring Morning58 Vixen59 Pompocali60 Trip to the National Portrait Gallery, with the wife61 The Powder-monkey’s Apprentice62 Peasholm Park63 Blood Sugar64 William Shaw is lowered down the shaft65 Hillards66 STOP!67 Rosso Youthy 198468 Near Extinction70 Markham Main71 The York, Edlington72 The Lost74 Our Language77 Acknowledgements

Sarah Wimbush is a Leeds poet who hails from Doncaster. Her debut poetry pamphlet, Bloodlines, won the Mslexia/PBS Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2019. It was published in 2020 by Seren and shortlisted in the Michael Marks Awards. In 2020 she was a winner in The Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet Competition with The Last Dinosaur in Doncaster, published by Smith|Doorstop in 2021. Her poems have appeared in Brittle Star, The Interpreter’s House and Stand, among others, and have been highly placed in a number of single poem competitions, including 1st prize in the Mslexia, 2nd in the Ledbury and 3rd in The Plough. She is a member of York Stanza and Doncaster Read 2 Write, and received a Northern Writers’ Award in 2019. Her first book-length collection, Shelling Peas with My Grandmother in the Gorgiolands, is published by Bloodaxe in 2022.

There is a Romany saying, We are all one: all who are with us are ourselves: Sarah Wimbush’s collection draws us into the world of Travellers with linguistic panache and delight.

• I11 House12 White Cottage13 Shelling Peas with My Grandmother in the Gorgiolands14 Mother Tongue16 Dukkering17 Carroty Kate 18 Gran Violet Applies a Poultice19 Gal20 The Hedgehog’s Tale21 John Thomas22 Pitched early mornin’ at encampment o’ Gypsy king Esau Smith23 Scrapping at Marshall’s Engineering, Gainsborough24 I can see Sandbeck Hall25 Them Dunstan Kids26 Our Jud27 Threshin’28 Straw Ticks29 Bedsheet30 Meat Puddin’31 Laneham Ferry32 The Bittern33 The Calling Basket34 A Sund’y in Worksop35 Late Afternoon by a Hedge36 Census 191137 Earring38 The Ring39 Walking Girl40 The Astronaut Who Came to Tea42 In the Library43 Gifts44 BloodlinesII46 Pilgrim Queens47 Things My Mother Taught Me48 Inside Lingerie49 2:15 at Doncaster50 The Pencil Sharpener51 Giant Leaping52 I learned to drive in a metallic blue Ford Capri53 Visiting My Aunt on Her Birthday, 1st September 197954 Uncle Reg55 Between Mary Berry’s Baking Bible and My Class Enjoys Cooking56 Rebel57 A Spring Morning58 Vixen59 Pompocali60 Trip to the National Portrait Gallery, with the wife61 The Powder-monkey’s Apprentice62 Peasholm Park63 Blood Sugar64 William Shaw is lowered down the shaft65 Hillards66 STOP!67 Rosso Youthy 198468 Near Extinction70 Markham Main71 The York, Edlington72 The Lost74 Our Language77 Acknowledgements