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Award winning

I Left My Hair in
San Francisco

JOINT WINNER of the Geoff Stevens Memorial Poetry Prize 2021

"Lucky the reader who stumbles on this debut collection. Here they will find balm for the spirit, succour for the soul..."

Gary Day

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The hum of the English countryside runs through these poems. By turns playful, clear, elegant and haunting they observe family and landscape, love and loss with a sure eye...

Janet Sutherland

Praise & Reviews

Here are poems that will take you by the hand, dance you in the light until you too are ‘caught in a fall of honeylight’. Here are songs written in the rhythm of praise where joy is found in the colourful feast of life.

Alison Lock

A wonderful, wide-ranging first collection ... whatever the subject matter Durham's sensitivity and astute powers of observation shine through

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Hear me read...

I really enjoy the spoken word.... hope you do too.

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About Sallie Durham

Sallie Durham lives in Sussex with her human and animal family. She attended Sussex University then qualified as an English lecturer in further education. She later became an EFL teacher, hosting and teaching students from around the world. Her poems and short stories have won prizes and been published in magazines and anthologies. ‘I Left My Hair in San Francisco’ was joint winner of the Geoff Stevens Memorial Poetry Prize 2021 and is her debut collection...

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