Glorious Vane: 30 Years of Vane Women Press nursing I want to sleep ‘peacefully

I want to sleep ‘peacefully / beneath a sea-bed alive with the calligraphy of coral’

and find ourselves incanting the heath’s calendar of spells and enchantments

a London densely populated by human and animal characters whose colours and aspect she brilliantly evokes

it’s a world that’s completely accessible while being slightly skewiff and off-bonk

frightened of what we will burn”

Glorious Vane: 30 Years of Vane Women Press nursing I want to sleep ‘peacefullyFor over thirty years the Vane Women collective has been writing, performing and publishing, taking their distinctive poetry across the North East and beyond. It is a remarkable achievement, an act of quiet, supportive and sustained resistance to the values of show business and big business that disfigure so much of contemporary British poetry. Although all these poets have different things to say, and different ways to say them, there is a shared