Description
In Late Shift at the Pickle Factory Mary Dickins presents the reader with an intensely crafted patchwork of stories, reminiscences, observations and whimsy. These poems are tender, sad, joyful, surreal and ridiculous and always characterised by Mary's distinctive blend of wordplay, humour, poignancy and politics. Mary believes that there is nothing stranger, more intriguing and revealing than the everyday life, people and places that we take for granted. She invites you to explore and enjoy this book as part of her poetic legacy drawn from an exuberant and challenging life well lived.
Mary Dickins invites you to explore and enjoy this book as part of her poetic legacy drawn from an exuberant and challenging life, well lived.
About the Author
Mary wrote her first poem when she was four but it took her another fifty-six years to start sharing her work at poetry events, street parties and slams. She has been on television and radio as part of the Nationwide Building Society poetry ad campaign and has dished 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. Her debut pamphlet Happiness FM was published in 2020 and was selected as one of 10 uplifting books chosen by the NHS. Her poems have been published in a number of anthologies, websites and zines. In April 2022 Mary was featured in The Guardian regarding her experience of coming to performance poetry later in life.
Reviews
An understated pathos and a highly politicised mind at work. - Jacqueline Saphra
Book Information
ISBN 9781913958381
Author Mary Dickins
Format Paperback
Page Count 48
Imprint Burning Eye Books
Publisher Burning Eye Books
Mary Dickins invites you to explore and enjoy this book as part of her poetic legacy drawn from an exuberant and challenging life, well lived.
About the Author
Mary wrote her first poem when she was four but it took her another fifty-six years to start sharing her work at poetry events, street parties and slams. She has been on television and radio as part of the Nationwide Building Society poetry ad campaign and has dished 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. Her debut pamphlet Happiness FM was published in 2020 and was selected as one of 10 uplifting books chosen by the NHS. Her poems have been published in a number of anthologies, websites and zines. In April 2022 Mary was featured in The Guardian regarding her experience of coming to performance poetry later in life.
Reviews
An understated pathos and a highly politicised mind at work. - Jacqueline Saphra
Book Information
ISBN 9781913958381
Author Mary Dickins
Format Paperback
Page Count 48
Imprint Burning Eye Books
Publisher Burning Eye Books
