Gomer Press 2011
ed. Nigel Jenkins, Ken Jones & Lynne Rees
The first anthology of its kind to celebrate the literary wealth of haiku and its associated forms created both within Wales and by Welsh writers internationally from the 1960s to the present.
£9.99 from Gomer Press: orders@gomer.co.uk
The Unseen Wind
ISBN 9781903746844
edited by Lynne Rees & Jo Pacsoo
The 25 haibun included in this anthology were selected from entries to the British Haiku Society's biennial haibun award in 2009, the last in the series. The award aims to promote discussion and research of the haibun form and the anthology is both a celebration of haibun and a teaching tool by way of the Editors' Introduction and the detailed critical commentaries that accompany each selection.
The Oven House
Out of print but a few remaining signed, hardback copies are still available by post at £10 within the UK and £12.50 (or the Paypal converted equivalent in Euros and US$) to the Rest of the World. Please contact me: lynnerees (at) yahoo (dot) com
…she feels raw, like burnt skin, like nails broken below the quick, the breath in her throat as sharp as razors, though she has no right to feel any of this, as she is the one burning and breaking and cutting up the life they have shared for ten years.
Breeze is married, still in love with her husband, and absorbed in running her own second-hand bookshop. Then she notices the man standing behind her in the coffee shop, the book in his hands. How is it possible to feel so happy in the company of someone she’s just met? And why should that happiness feel so illicit?
The Oven House doesn't just tell a compelling story: Lynne Rees's sensuous prose makes us re-experience love, betrayal and recovery in our own bodies. She writes as a poet, in the best sense. Susan Wicks
The Oven House is filled with the ripe pleasure of sexual indulgence, of the particular agonies that are irrevocably linked to both falling in and out of love and the uniquely lush joy that comes from falling in love with someone all over again. Book Reviews Online
Lynne Rees' novel is a journey into the isolation created by a passionate love affair that gradually disintegrates leaving the woman precipitously close to breakdown. A window through every emotional state from ecstasy to despair, Rees' novel is a poetic and eloquent study in guilt. Breeze, as her husband calls her, knows she cannot return her marriage to its previously comfortable state, but neither can she desert in pursuit of a new life with her lover after he abandons her. She flounders instead, in an unhappy limbo until she begins a gradual shift towards recovery. Mslexia
Messages (2008)
in collaboration with Sarah Salway
Out of print but a few remaining author copies are still available at £12.00 including postage & packing within the UK. Please contact me: lynnerees (at) yahoo (dot) com
in collaboration with Sarah Salway
Out of print but a few remaining author copies are still available at £12.00 including postage & packing within the UK. Please contact me: lynnerees (at) yahoo (dot) com
Messages is the result of an exciting writing collaboration between Lynne Rees and Sarah Salway. Ranging from moving to the playful, the themes of love, sex, life, death and chocolate all take their place in this unique book of 300 pieces of 300 words.
Oulipo has mostly been a playground for the boys, so it is refreshing to see it inhabited playfully here by Rees and Salway. Perhaps their three hundred three-hundred word messages don’t add up to a ‘proper book’, but readers treated to this lucky dip of tiny tales — including useful tips on where to hide a dead body, where to order a talking man and perhaps best of all, a story involving killer broccoli — won’t be asking for their money back. Pulp
...Lynne Rees and Sarah Salway’s delightful Messages, where prose poem meets sexy short fiction in a book most women will enjoy having next to the bed. Susan Wicks
Learning How to Fall (2005)
...Lynne Rees and Sarah Salway’s delightful Messages, where prose poem meets sexy short fiction in a book most women will enjoy having next to the bed. Susan Wicks
Learning How to Fall (2005)
ISBN 1902638603Lynne Rees’s first full collection marks the confident arrival of a poet who explores and celebrates human experience in all its unsettling and delightful incarnations. Here is a writer who clearly loves language, but is also willing to demonstrate restraint in her strategies of narrative and portraiture, and in her pursuit of the elusive epiphanies of the everyday.
[Lynne Rees] shakes the familiar world of common things and makes us see it anew. Gillian Clarke
This is serious poetry which is also approachable and immediate, capable of attracting a first-time reader of poetry as well as satisfying the seasoned reader. Philip Gross
This collection is full and exciting, each poem exquisitely crafted, her surreal and imaginative edge always surprising. Clare Maynard, Welsh Books Council.
…endlessly inventive… Todd Swift, Magma.
…this first full collection demonstrates her fierce intelligence, wit and technical ability. Lynne is a skilled imagist and this is a consistently rewarding book. Catherine Smith, The New Writer.
This is serious poetry which is also approachable and immediate, capable of attracting a first-time reader of poetry as well as satisfying the seasoned reader. Philip Gross
This collection is full and exciting, each poem exquisitely crafted, her surreal and imaginative edge always surprising. Clare Maynard, Welsh Books Council.
…endlessly inventive… Todd Swift, Magma.
…this first full collection demonstrates her fierce intelligence, wit and technical ability. Lynne is a skilled imagist and this is a consistently rewarding book. Catherine Smith, The New Writer.
