Description
Happiness FM will take you on a joyful journey that explores the complexities and contradictions of 21st century life. Meet uninhibited Russian grandmothers along with creepy fans of Professor Brian Cox and learn how to achieve your bucket list without leaving your sofa. With wry humour, tenderness and a social conscience Mary Dickins invites us to recognise our own lives in her subject matter and themes and to celebrate with her all that is sublime and ridiculous about being human.
About the Author
Mary Dickins began sharing her work at poetry events, street parties and slams. She soon became a regular performer at the legendary Bang Said the Gun. She has been Poet in Residence for Open Garden Squares at various London locations and was a finalist in the Poetry Rivals National Slam 2015. Her poem "Dear Professor Brian Cox" was used to launch the popular Muddy Feet Poetry channel. Mary has commissioned poems for radio and television includingNationwide Building Society poetry ad campaign and continues to dish up poems all over the country as part of the Poetry Takeaway team. In 2017 she set up the "Poems not Pills" project to promote the therapeutic value of poetry for health professionals and their patients. Always witty and insightful Mary's writing is a joyful and affectionate exploration of the human condition and what it means to be alive. As she celebrates her 71st year on this perplexing planet she is delighted to have this opportunity to share her thoughts with readers everywhere.
Reviews
'Happiness FM' will take you on an exhilarating ride, travelling at breakneck speed from the everyday to the transcendental and back again. But as you read between the layers of laughs, jaunty rhythms and irresistible rhymes, you'll discover an understated pathos and a highly politicised mind at work. These poems will sing in your mind long after you've closed the pages of this determined, honest and uplifting collection.' - Jacqueline Saphra; 'Mary Dickins debut collection Happiness FM hugs you like a warm cup of cocoa. Full of wit and charm her poetry will make you chuckle and joyfully reflect on how beautifully odd this world can be.' - Peter Hayhoe (Muddy Feet Poetry)
Book Information
ISBN 9781911570837
Author Mary Dickins
Format Paperback
Page Count 36
Imprint Burning Eye Books
Publisher Burning Eye Books
About the Author
Mary Dickins began sharing her work at poetry events, street parties and slams. She soon became a regular performer at the legendary Bang Said the Gun. She has been Poet in Residence for Open Garden Squares at various London locations and was a finalist in the Poetry Rivals National Slam 2015. Her poem "Dear Professor Brian Cox" was used to launch the popular Muddy Feet Poetry channel. Mary has commissioned poems for radio and television includingNationwide Building Society poetry ad campaign and continues to dish up poems all over the country as part of the Poetry Takeaway team. In 2017 she set up the "Poems not Pills" project to promote the therapeutic value of poetry for health professionals and their patients. Always witty and insightful Mary's writing is a joyful and affectionate exploration of the human condition and what it means to be alive. As she celebrates her 71st year on this perplexing planet she is delighted to have this opportunity to share her thoughts with readers everywhere.
Reviews
'Happiness FM' will take you on an exhilarating ride, travelling at breakneck speed from the everyday to the transcendental and back again. But as you read between the layers of laughs, jaunty rhythms and irresistible rhymes, you'll discover an understated pathos and a highly politicised mind at work. These poems will sing in your mind long after you've closed the pages of this determined, honest and uplifting collection.' - Jacqueline Saphra; 'Mary Dickins debut collection Happiness FM hugs you like a warm cup of cocoa. Full of wit and charm her poetry will make you chuckle and joyfully reflect on how beautifully odd this world can be.' - Peter Hayhoe (Muddy Feet Poetry)
Book Information
ISBN 9781911570837
Author Mary Dickins
Format Paperback
Page Count 36
Imprint Burning Eye Books
Publisher Burning Eye Books
