A Guided Tour of the Ice House

978-1-906613-31-0

£9.95

Carole Bromley is married with four children and lives in York. Twice a winner in The Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition, she has two pamphlets with Smith/Doorstop (Unscheduled Halt, 2005, and Skylight, 2009). She has won a number of first prizes, including The Bridport and Yorkshire Open, and her poems have appeared in a range of magazines and anthologies. Carole is a graduate of the MPhil in Writing at Glamorgan University and currently teaches Creative Writing for York University’s Centre for Lifelong Learning.

‘She creates her emotional effects by wringing pathos from ordinary and familiar facts’ — Andrew Motion

‘A sort of Elizabeth Bishop atmosphere I felt very much at home in.’ — Selima Hill

‘I love Carole Bromley’s poems because they make me optimistic about growing older. The getting of wisdom, for Bromley, has not meant self–satisfaction or the blunting of perception: her poems are wry, funny, cleanly written, and, especially when their perspectives are long, startlingly fresh and new.’ — Kate Clanchy

‘She gets under the skin of her subject in an impressively direct and imaginative way’ — Don Paterson