SAFE GROUND
Safe Ground traces Rosie Johnston’s search for safety from a tricky upbringing in Troubles Belfast to peace and a sense of home near Margate where T. S. Eliot wrote part of “The Waste Land”. Read more.
‘Safe Ground is a brilliant collection – I loved reading both familiar poems and the new pieces; it’s a testament to [Johnston] triumphing over trauma which makes it an uplifting book so full of heart’: Charlotte Ansell
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SIX-COUNT JIVE
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is talked about all over the place but what does it feel like? Six-Count Jive describes the inner landscape of PTSD in a unique story of healing, from diagnosis to happiness.
‘This is an important little book. Read it.’ Billy Mills
‘The sadness and the beauty lead so satisfyingly to the peace and triumph of the ending.’ Sue Rose Read more
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BITTERSWEET SEVENTEENS
Dedicated with love to Rosie’s father, Roy (RR) Johnston (1924 – 2012), who ‘gave me life in so many ways‘. Rosie does not call her poems haiku, though like haiku in the western style they have seventeen syllables per stanza. Their closer cousins are Early Irish syllabic poems like Pangur Ban and The Voyage of Bran. Enjoy them singly or as a sequence. Read more.
Bittersweet Seventeens £10.00 inclusive of p&p
ORION
‘Orion is a giant leap forward for Johnston. This time around, Johnston has compiled a richly rounded poem that flows beautifully as one piece, one entity. And yet, for those readers who prefer to dip in and out of a collection, each perfectly sculpted stanza can also be appreciated in isolation.’ Louise Richardson, Culture Northern Ireland. Read more.
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SWEET SEVENTEENS
Rosie’s much loved first collection. ‘How much life can you squeeze into seventeen syllables? Quite a lot if you’re Rosie Johnston. Some of these poems are like tiny stories, others like soft pillows, others like pieces of ice. Read them and you’ll want to write a few of your own!’ Author, Vestal McIntyre. Read more.
Sweet Seventeens £10.00 inclusive of p&p
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ANTHOLOGIES
AMERICAN WRITERS REVIEW 2021: TURMOIL AND RECOVERY (SAN FEDELE PRESS)
FEVERS OF THE MIND 5: OVERCOME (2021)
PLACES OF POETRY (Oneworld, 2020) – Carnlough Bay
CHURCHILL WRITERS’ GROUP ANTHOLOGY 2020
LIVE CANON More New Poems for Christmas 2018
LIVE CANON 154 PROJECT: 154 poems by 154 contemporary poets in response to Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets
ROSIE’S NOVELS
THE MOST INTIMATE PLACE
(2009) Maia Press/ Arcadia Books
Patrick is a young journalist working in south London for a local paper he sees as way beneath his dignity. He is sent to interview a controversial woman priest and falls obsessively in love with her. He is writing to his girlfriend from prison to explain why he is on remand for the priest’s murder and ‘intimate assault’.
Tim (aged 10) loves science. His sister Rox (13) believes in spooks and spells. When their family moves into Greenwich Abbey, to keep Gran close after their Grandpa has died, they are haunted by a ghost who just might be out to kill them.
What You See Is What You Get is for young adult readers from about the age of 10. Read more.
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