No Love Lost

by Kate Garrett (Editor), Liz Hedgecock (Contributor), Michele Brenton (Contributor)

A poetry and flash fiction collection bursting with striking works of ‘anti-romance’.

The full spectrum of love – the broken, the funny, the tough, the sideways, and the lost.

Edited by Kate Garrett, No Love Lost will be the first in a series of Slim Volumes.

Genres: Poetry

148 pages, Paperback

First published December 7, 2014

About the author

Kate is a writer, mama, and witch who plays tabor & bodhran, is obsessed with history & folklore, reads tarot, makes things, keeps fish, does whatever the cat says, and haunts 800 year old churches.

Reviews

[Kay Buckley · Rating 4 out of 5]

No Love Lost is an eclectic anthology of poems and flash fiction. Like one of the poems within the collection ‘The Book of Love’ – it is a survivor’s playlist carefully mixed together by the editor Kate Garrett to show all aspects of love. Although love is often an ‘old story’ being played out, there is much to be admired in the inventive re-workings of each writer’s take on love. Here we have Pygmalion as a papier-mâché woman, Fausterella who gets to keep her shoes and independence instead of being married to a prince, and Kate who is never tamed/or gets to tame her Petruchio. Whether it is humour in the upfront ‘Moon on a Stick’, ‘Tarzan and Sexual Frustration’ and ‘Disappearing’ - or the psychologically chilling ‘Pulp’ and ‘Water Damage’ – the power relations of love are always to the fore. It is ‘love in action’, not ‘love in dreams’ that is the theme of this collection – read it with a smile and wry recognition for your former loves and selves – there is No Love Lost.