A snowed-in Saturday gave me the chance to catch up with Cliff Yates’ new pamphlet Bike, Rain. Well worth a fiver from Knivesforksandspoonspress. Cliff is in fine and often surreal voice -especially when he’s writing about language and the confusion of travelling across linguistic borders, of being elsewhere. In ‘The Chinese Girls Played Cards’ the sky ‘was Swiss German, then French’. While in ‘Worb Dorf’ a man mends a heater ‘whistling in two languages’. The collection ends memorably with ‘Shakespeare and Company’. This poem, written in just one sentence, is packed with Parisian life – but you should really read it for yourself.
Published by Sue Dymoke
Sue Dymoke was a poet, Associate Professor in Education at Nottingham Trent University and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts. What They Left Behind, her third full poetry collection was published by Shoestring Press in 2018. A posthumous collection, What to do Next, was published by Shoestring Press in 2023, when there was a memorial celebration of her life in University Hall, Nottingham. Sue's memorial video can be seen at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UDDSW_HOEc&t=60s This website is maintained in her memory by her civil partner, David Belbin, but will not be updated. View all posts by Sue Dymoke
Sue Dymoke Poetry 
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