QUANTUM SHEEP
This collection features not only the infamous QUANTUM SHEEP
poems, but the texts of poems also using a form I invented, the embedded haiku, from my WINDOW OF ART installation at St Thomas Hospital, London, as 'Embedded in the body' . There are experimental and formal poems, updates of Shakespeare's sonnets, and quite a few erotic and funny, not to say filthy, poems about post-divorce sex and dating. Published by Peterloo Poets, still a few available from me, and soon on Kindle.
‘Well-shaped poems with rich imagery...wrily funny... vulnerability and readiness to express emotions. If the job of the poet is to
keep the reader intelligently entertained, this book succeeds admirably.' Pennine Platform.
This collection features not only the infamous QUANTUM SHEEP
poems, but the texts of poems also using a form I invented, the embedded haiku, from my WINDOW OF ART installation at St Thomas Hospital, London, as 'Embedded in the body' . There are experimental and formal poems, updates of Shakespeare's sonnets, and quite a few erotic and funny, not to say filthy, poems about post-divorce sex and dating. Published by Peterloo Poets, still a few available from me, and soon on Kindle.
‘Well-shaped poems with rich imagery...wrily funny... vulnerability and readiness to express emotions. If the job of the poet is to
keep the reader intelligently entertained, this book succeeds admirably.' Pennine Platform.
MORE PRAISE FOR QUANTUM SHEEP:
'We liked Valerie Laws' haik-ewes, in which a word was written on the back of each of fourteen live sheep, who thus wrote haik-ewes as they moved.' Times Literary Supplement, reviewing 'Adventures in Form', ed Tom Chivers, in which QS featured in 2012.
‘Some of the best poems in the collection focus in on natural life disturbed by the human hand (Valerie Laws’ ‘Chainsaw Massacre’) ... Laws’ sonnet beautifully evokes both a passion for the countryside and her horror at its destruction' Lettie Mckie on 'Chainsaw Massacre' in Sabotage
Reviews, Sept 2013, of the anthology 'Not on our green belt', ed Lindsey Holland.
'We liked Valerie Laws' haik-ewes, in which a word was written on the back of each of fourteen live sheep, who thus wrote haik-ewes as they moved.' Times Literary Supplement, reviewing 'Adventures in Form', ed Tom Chivers, in which QS featured in 2012.
‘Some of the best poems in the collection focus in on natural life disturbed by the human hand (Valerie Laws’ ‘Chainsaw Massacre’) ... Laws’ sonnet beautifully evokes both a passion for the countryside and her horror at its destruction' Lettie Mckie on 'Chainsaw Massacre' in Sabotage
Reviews, Sept 2013, of the anthology 'Not on our green belt', ed Lindsey Holland.
AT the launch of QUANTUM SHEEP, at the Living Room nightclub, Newcastle upon Tyne.
