Carole Bromley – författare

Carole Bromley’s second collection of poems, The Stonegate Devil, centres on her hometown of York, exploring its personal stories and history in a way that is both playful and moving, addressing childhood, relationships and coming-of-age. A number of poems also explore the poet’s experiences of bereavement and loss.

Blast Off! is aimed at 7-10 year olds but lower secondary school children will also enjoy the poems which are varied in subject matter (fairytales, funny poems and serious poems, poems about school and bugs and Christmas angels and pets and siblings, about moving house, space, football, friends, marbles, musical instruments and magnesium). There are riddles and clerihews and rhyming couplets, short poems, long poems and everything in between. Here you will find poems to curl up with on your own, poems to share at bedtime and poems crying out for audience participation and performance.

Carole Bromley’s fourth collection brings together poems about York and Yorkshire, the loss of friends and loved ones, travel, literature, art, and her own recent experience of brain surgery.Startling, witty, and with an eye for detail as sharp as a falcon's claws, this new publication by a poet who 'never forgets her reader' is set to delight, entertain and provoke all who climb its towers and pace its halls. "A new collection from Carole Bromley! Oh yes! We know it’s going to be good; we know that we can trust this poet who never seems to forget her reader, or to remember to entertain. A collection of cool-eyed, warm-hearted poems, with a glorious confidence of proper nouns; Aertex shirts, twin-tubs, ‘a framed photograph of Rhyl, a ‘Santa Claus custard jug’, Frosted Strawberry Squares... Here is a collection with its knickers off and on; and yet beautiful, sensitive, intelligent work, and I am in awe of her killer lines in and out of each poem." Deborah Alma "I love to read Carole Bromley’s poems, for the clarity of the people and the places she shows us; for the observant comedy, the principled feminism and the doughty class politics; for the clean, spare language; for the wisdom; and for the way she coils these things together and makes them take flight. This late collection, with its meditations on family, illness and mourning, is an unsparing but magnificent achievement." Kate Clanchy