Bread-and-Butter Beings

By Laura Connochie

What do you do when Christmas dinner is ruined by a family fight or your therapist wants to explore female friendship and it's making you uncomfortable? When you're stuck in a traffic jam outside Swindon in a car with no aircon during a heatwave? When a deceased loved one visits you years later in a dream or you have a meltdown while doing a big shop at the supermarket after work during the pandemic? In her second collection of poetry, Laura Connochie turns these memorable moments and more into poems.

Arranged over seven chapters - Generations, Nature, Writing, Pandemic, Heartscapes, Endings and Beyond - this contemporary collection is at once unique and universal, and often takes you in a direction you might not expect. Delve into sonnets, free verse and haiku on a range of subjects where pared-down but precise word choices reflect her day job as a (scissor-oriented) copyeditor. The collection also includes tribute poems inspired by well-loved poets such as Philip Larkin, Chen Chen, Anna Akhmatova and ee cummings.

Laura Connochie is originally from Cornwall in the UK and now lives in Stroud in Gloucestershire. Her first poetry collection, No Money in Poetry, and her spiritual memoir, What the Mushrooms Told Me, are also available on Amazon and at all good bookshops. She's aiming to publish her fourth book, a sequel to WTMTM, in autumn 2025 and you can read more of her poetry on Instagram @amusenut.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CHKY19WX
• ISBN13: 9798854654425
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"