Front cover painting: Little Red Boat by Sonia Lawson, RA
Cynthia Fuller's distinctive poetic voice is immediately recognisable in this third collection, Only a Small Boat, but she also extends her range by exploring substantially different areas of experience in each of its three sections. These poems move out of 'past homes, old addresses... left here' towards the discovery of 'what kind of house could fold love safe.' culminating in a sequence of love poems. Equally at home in inner and outer landscapes, they are shaped now by memory, now by the history of the pit village in County Durham where Cynthia Fuller lives. Here, in both people and places, is a sense of continuity and hope.
'I was reading the poems aloud, enjoying the wonderful lyric sense which comes from the endemic sound-echoes of her work.' Hilary Elfick
'A perceptive and sensitive observer equipped with the imagination and skill to shape her reactions into poems of high quality.' George Bott
'Here is a voice seldom raised, one which is deceptively hesitant.' Michael Standen
Only a Small Boat costs £7.00 and was published in 2001.
ISBN: 978-1-873226-49-0
Cynthia Fuller was born in Kent, but has lived in the North East since the 1970s, working freelance as a teacher of literature and creative writing in Adult and Higher Education, and also with groups in the community. She has two grown-up sons.
She has co-edited several poetry anthologies, including Smelter (Mudfog, 2003) with Kevin Cadwallender, The Poetry Cure (Bloodaxe, 2005) with Julia Darling, and North By North East (Iron Press, 2006) with Andy Croft. Her poetry has appeared in such anthologies as Bloodaxe’s New Women Poets and Being Alive.
Her earlier collections were Moving Towards Light (1992), Instructions for the Desert (1996) and Only a Small Boat (2001). Jack's Letters Home, her previous collection, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in 2006. Her latest is Background Music. All have been published by Flambard Press.
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