Veronica Aaronson
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Veronica’s work has been published widely in literary journals, online and in anthologies and she has won, and been placed in, several competitions. Her first collection Nothing About the Birds Is Ordinary This Morning (Indigo Dreams) was put forward for the 2020 Laurel Prize. https://www.indigodreams.co.uk/veronica-aaronson/4594449130. One of the poems from the collection was chosen for the Scottish Poetry Library Anthology 2019. www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/veronica-aaronson/ em/the-art-of-listening/
Emily’s Mothers (Dempsey and Windle) 2020. My Longing to have Ash-blonde Hair Begins was nominated for the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem in 2019 . Telling Tales (4Word Press) 2021. Still Arriving (Dempsey & Windle) 2022. Inanna Reimagined (Fore Street Press) 2023. This 'poetry/play for voices' involving two musicians and twelve poets, received two staged productions, the first in February 2023 at Ashburton Arts Centre, the second in April 2023 at The Pavilions, Teignmouth. Further stagings can be expected in the future. |
Nothing About The Birds Is Ordinary This Morning (Indigo Dreams, 2018)
Reviews
'Aaronson's poems are lit with the deep luminosity – and numinosity – of time on the Isle of Iona, which acts as the cohering thread for this gentle, passionate collection. The opening theme, to which she returns, is the bee sting with which she arrived on the island, and implicit in her poems about bees is both the nature of 'hive mind' and the metaphor of these endangered insects for our own times. Striking in this delicate work is her subtle juxtaposition of description of the natural world with human concerns, griefs and at times cruelties. What remains, though, is the sense of silver light – the sea off Iona – that washes through all the work. She asks us to look, and look again. A fine collection to which you will want to return.'
Roselle Angwin
“In Veronica Aaronson’s collection the human and natural world converge in accurate description, where empathy and wisdom emerge in equal measure.
There is much beauty in the detail and her use of colour imagery in the poems can be astonishing. Her authentic observations of human character can transform a seemingly ordinary experience into something remarkable, with a quality of transcendence. This is achieved by lines often handled deftly with a touch as light as a song bird on the wing.”
Susan Taylor
For poems from the collection:
https://www.indigodreams.co.uk/veronica-aaronson/4594449130
https://www.acumen-poetry.co.uk/
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/veronica-aaronson/
Poetry Place August 2020 : https://westwiltsradio.com/shows/the-poetry-place/
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Nothing About the Birds is Ordinary This Morning £10.50 incl. p & p.
paypal.me/VAaronson
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email: [email protected]
Emily’s Mothers (Dempsey and Windle)
Reviews
"Aaronson graphically explores the the underlying tensions arising from the adoption process. Unflinchingly expressed through the barb of [her] teeth, she exposes the emotional trajectory which affects both present and future relationships: adopted mother, discovery of birth mother, boyfriends, having her own baby. However, this is far from a bitter or even a sentimental journey - with unerring dexterity Aaronson’s observations leads the reader to reflect upon his/her life hopefully to arrive at a similar place threaded and knotted onto a sturdy string, like a pearl."
Ruth O’Callaghan
"This collection explores the disconnections of adoption; its dreamscape and bloodlines. At the heart these poems is remarkable empathy, without which there can be no proper understanding. We are left in no doubt as to the fundamental needs of being human; the courage it sometimes takes to satisfy them."
Martin Figura
For poems from the collection:
Dempsey and Windle https://www.dempseyandwindle.com/
https://youtu.be/Z7AjW9n01Io
To Purchase
Emily’s Mothers £11.53 incl. p & p.
paypal.me/VAaronson
or
email: [email protected]
"Aaronson graphically explores the the underlying tensions arising from the adoption process. Unflinchingly expressed through the barb of [her] teeth, she exposes the emotional trajectory which affects both present and future relationships: adopted mother, discovery of birth mother, boyfriends, having her own baby. However, this is far from a bitter or even a sentimental journey - with unerring dexterity Aaronson’s observations leads the reader to reflect upon his/her life hopefully to arrive at a similar place threaded and knotted onto a sturdy string, like a pearl."
Ruth O’Callaghan
"This collection explores the disconnections of adoption; its dreamscape and bloodlines. At the heart these poems is remarkable empathy, without which there can be no proper understanding. We are left in no doubt as to the fundamental needs of being human; the courage it sometimes takes to satisfy them."
Martin Figura
For poems from the collection:
Dempsey and Windle https://www.dempseyandwindle.com/
https://youtu.be/Z7AjW9n01Io
To Purchase
Emily’s Mothers £11.53 incl. p & p.
paypal.me/VAaronson
or
email: [email protected]