Barbara Cumbers
poet and geologist
BOOKS
First collection
My first collection A Gap in the Rain, published by Indigo Dreams in 2016 is out of print, but I still have a few copies. Please contact me. And much as I hate to give them any publicity, Amazon has a few copies too.
There's a review in London Grip at
https://londongrip.co.uk/2016/02/london-grip-poetry-review-cumbers/
Pamphlet
My collection of Shetland poems In the simmer dim, published by Dempsey and Windle in 2022, is available from their website, or you can have a signed copy from me (£8.50). Please use Paypal.me to pay and to let me know your postal address. I'll post a copy within a few days. There are a few poems from the book here.
Anthologies I'm in
Storm brain: the Hippocrates book of the brain; edited by Wendy French, Michael Hulse and Donald Singer
Hippocrates Press, 2021. 978-1-9163981-1-5
includes Stroke
Poems for the year 2020; edited by Merryn Williams
Shoestring Press, 2021. 978-1-912524-90-7
includes In the forty-first year of our marriage
Poems for Jeremy Corbyn; edited by Merryn Williams
Shoestring Press, 2016. 978-1-910323-66-3
includes Canvassing in a safe Tory seat
Map: poems after William Smith's geological map of 1815; edited by Michael McKimm
Worple Press, 2015.978-1-905208-32-6
includes Mapping on Tilberthwaite Fells
In Protest: poems for human rights; edited by Helle Abelvik-Lawson, Anthony Hett and Laila Sumpton
Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2013. 978-0-9575210-3-2
includes Thirst fugue
The Iron book of humorous verse; edited by Eileen Jones
Iron Press, 2010. 978-0-9552450-9-1
includes Globberwormy
Openings: an anthology of poems by Open University Poets
an annual anthology, published by Open University Poets, now at issue 38 (2021)
includes one or more of my poems every year.
Fanfare: poems by contemporary women poets; edited by Wendy French and Dilys Wood.
Second Light Publications, 2015. 978-0-9927088-1-8
includes The foolishness of squirrels
Collaborations
Core sample: layers of London & The Elephant and Castle;
a project by Gail Dickerson, Barbara Cumbers and Anna Robinson.
Mixed Media Book, 2017.
Paintings, photographs and maps overlain by poems about people, history, archaeology, geology or the everyday happenings down the Elephant and Castle.