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Branchlines

• 1956 by Margaret Wilkinson
• Branch Lines Fiction
• Broken Biscuits by June Portlock
• Colours/Colors by Angela Readman
• Even The Ants Have Names (editor Gerry Wardle)
• Glass Tales by Marlynn Rosario
• Glee with a Blue Background by Liz Atkin
• Inviolate by Sara Park
• A Kind of Mink by Heather Young
• Lip Reading by Fiona Ritchie Walker
• Palimpsest by Rima Handley
• Postcard from a Waterless Lake by Lisa Matthews
• The Potting Shed by Monica Cheale
• Sex & Death by Kathleen Kenny
• The Sugar Factory by Ann O'Neill
• Waltzing off from Hand-Me-Downs by Sylvia Forrest
• What You Want by Joan Johnston
• white lies are harmless by Jeanne Macdonald

Backlist

• International Women's Day Postcards
• Love Poems Postcards
• Modern Goddess by the Poetry Virgins
• Sauce by the Poetry Virgins

Poems of the Month

• A happy childhood by Julia Darling
• A Map of where they are by Lisa Matthews
• A Morning Ritual by Degna Stone
• Ancestry by Julia Darling
• A Necklace of Acorns by Pauline Plummer
• Another poem for Eve to mark out of 10 on a post-it note by John Hegley
• Anticipation by Jasmine Irving
• Aunty by Jessica Mayhew
• Birdhouse by Anna Woodford
• Birth Day by Mandy Maxwell
• Black Bullets and Vinegar by Catherine Graham
• Blue Plaque by Joan Johnston
• Bonds by Jo Reed
• Bosom Friends by Margaret Eddershaw
• Bread by Ann O'Neill
• Breath by Ellen Phethean
• Building a Lion on Weymouth Beach by Joanna Rimmer
• Cat Woman by Kathleen Kenny
• Caught Voice by Phoebe Walker
• Cleopatra in Waterloo, Liverpool by Pauline Plummer
• Darling by Jackie Kay
• Down the Dene by Ellen Phethean
• Dunstanburgh by Katrina Porteous
• England by Catherine Graham
• Evaluation by Fiona Ritchie Walker
• For My Mother by Anne Ryland
• Fury by Josephine Scott
• Getting Rid of the Aphids by Christy Ducker
• Given Away by Jeanne Macdonald
• Grandmother Rowing by Celia McCulloch
• Grandmother's Portrait 1890 by Cynthia Fuller
• Gulls by Linda France
• Health Check by Penny Feinstein
• Heirloom by Kate Fox
• Idyll by U. A. Fanthorpe
• In Bluebeard's Garden by Helen Ivory
• Inside the Kist by Fiona Ritchie Walker
• Insomnia by Julia Darling
• Is there a reason? by Judy Walker
• Judgement Day by Helen Broom
• July by Elizabeth Tate
• Kessin by Sara Taylor
• Landscapes by Diane Granger
• Last Portrait by Linda France
• Lessons by Lizzie Whyman
• Letting go by Dorothy Baird
• Liver Sense by Sara Park
• The Lives of Strangers by Crista Ermiya
• Lost Spoon by Pat Borthwick
• Making Clogs at Gallowgate by Catherine Graham
• Making Sloe Gin by Lindsay Balderson
• The Makings of Marmalade by Gillian Allnutt
• Mam and the Cowboys by Angela Readman
• Maternal Instinct by Crista Ermiya
• Monster by Lesley Mountain
• Mother's Lustre by Pippa Little
• Mrs Greathead's Garden by Pippa Little
• My Mother by Maggie Tate
• My Mother's Leek Pudding by Linda France
• Night Trains in Maine by Celia McCulloch
• Office at Night by Rowan Ferguson.
• One morning by Isabel Garford
• The Party by Helen Burke
• Planting Tulips by Kathy Towers
• The Plucking Shed by Gill McEvoy
• Poppy by Pauline Plummer
• Poppy emerging by Lesley Mountain
• Portuguese Wall-Hanging, 17c by Sylvia Forrest
• Postcard by Degna Stone
• The Quartz in Your Valley by S. J. Litherland
• The question of naming it by Lizzie Whyman
• Rise by Pat Winslow
• River, Garden, Lake by Carlotta Johnson
• Self-Belief by Moniza Alvi
• Selling up by Sue Spencer
• Sensuous by Kathleen Kenny
• Sharp Knives by Valerie Laws
• Sharp Talking by Sheree Mack
• Still Life with Figs by Joanna Boulter
• Strip by Fiona Ritchie Walker
• Tamed by Lesley Mountain
• The Burning Map, by Joan Johnston
• Then by Jeanne Macdonald
• The Silence Living in Houses by Linda Anderson
• Tie-dyed T-shirt by Fiona Ritchie Walker
• Trailer by Anna Woodford
• Triads on Smallness by Ellen Phethean
• Tulip by Andrea Dow
• Turkish Bath by Julia Darling
• Two Women by Cynthia Fuller
• The Second Version by Louise Hislop
• Vibration Mode by Sophie Baker
• Welcome to the airlock by Lisa Matthews
• Welcome to the Hotel Caledonia by Jo Colley
• When lemonade smelt like water by Victoria Milburn
• White by Joan Hewitt
• Whitley Bay by Susannah Pickering
• The Women's Group Visits the Museum by Joanna Boulter
• Work of Art by Kathleen Kenny