Did I mention that my third poetry collection is forthcoming on 20th July? Toebirds & Woodlice is a collection of 83 zany poems.
Weird, wacky, surreal and subversive
I first published Toebirds & Woodlice as a 39 poem pamphlet back in 2013. A decade later, I’m re-releasing it as a full collection including some poems from another photographic book of verse that I had self-published back in 2009. All the poems are wacky, some are surreal, and others subversive. Subversive verse? Why not?
One of the poems to be re-released in Toebirds & Woodlice
Leilanie Stewart is an award-winning author and poet from Belfast, Northern Ireland. She writes ghost and psychological horror, as well as experimental poetry. Her writing confronts the nature of self; her novels feature main characters on a dark psychological journey who have a crisis and create a new sense of identity. She began writing for publication while working as an English teacher in Japan, a career pathway that has influenced themes in her writing. Her former career as an Archaeologist has also inspired her writing and she has incorporated elements of archaeology and mythology into both her fiction and poetry.
In addition to promoting her own work, Leilanie runs Bindweed Anthologies, a creative writing publication with her writer husband, Joseph Robert. Aside from publishing pursuits, Leilanie enjoys spending time with her husband and their lively literary lad, a voracious reader of sea monster books.
Leilanie Stewart 