We are delighted to welcome Pauline Rowe to Maytree Press.
This new collection features poems written during the time that Pauline has been studying for a PhD at the University of Liverpool under the supervision of Professor Deryn Rees-Jones and Professor David Pilgrim.
About Pauline:
Raised in Widnes, Pauline has lived and worked in Liverpool for most
of her adult life. As an experienced tutor she has worked in the community and health settings on many socially engaged, heritage and writing and wellbeing projects, as
well as in Further and Higher Education. She is interested in collaborative practice
with other artists. She developed the Liverpool charity North End Writers from
scratch (2006 – 2018). She has been published in anthologies and magazines,
including The Rialto, Smoke, The Reader, The Frogmore Papers, Staxtes etc., Her
pamphlet Playing Out Time was published by Driftwood Publications, her first
collection Waiting for the Brown Trout God was published by Headland Publications.
In 2014 Lapwing Publications published her collection Voices of the Benares. Her
collaborative exhibition Sleeping in the Middle, recorded poems in response to
photographs by AJ Wilkinson was shown at Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, May 2018.
Her latest ongoing collaborative work The Allotments – with photographic artist
David Lockwood and artist, the late Arthur Lockwood – was shown as part of the
LOOK Biennial exhibition at the Victoria Gallery and Museum in Liverpool,
September 2019. Pauline has worked as Poet-in-Residence with Mersey Care NHS
Foundation Trust since 2013 and was the first Writer-in-Residence with Open Eye
Gallery, Liverpool (2016 – 2018).
The Ghost Hospital, featuring cover art by Marsden based artist, Kevin Threlfall, will be available from October 2019. More news about the collection coming very soon.
You can find out more about Kevin’s artwork here
