West Wilts Radio’s “Poetry Place”
Reading from "Rain Tree" on West Wilts Radio's "Poetry Place"
New Collection
"Rain Tree" draws on recent journeys in South India, revisiting the country of my childhood
Book launch and poetry reading at Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
BSU BA and MA graduate Matt Haw will launch his second pamphlet, Boudicca (Templar, 2021), on 28 October 2021 . He will be joined for a poetry reading at Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution by Carrie Etter, Pey Oh, and Ruth Sharman. The reading starts at 8 p.m. Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, [...]
Carla Scarano reviews Scarlet Tiger in Ink Sweat and Tears
Carla Scarano reviews ‘Scarlet Tiger’ by Ruth Sharman by Helen Ivory | Jun 10, 2018 | Reviews The most recent collection by Ruth Sharman, Scarlet Tiger, Templar Poetry 2016, won the 2016 Straid Collection Award. It is dedicated to her father and to her son. It is a substantial collection, featuring fifty-nine poems divided in [...]
Wendy Klein’s review of Scarlet Tiger in London Grip
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2017 • Tags: books, poetry, Wendy Klein • 0 Comments Wendy Klein finds Ruth Sharman’s poetry collection hard to put down Scarlet Tiger by Ruth Sharman Templar Poetry ISBN 9 781911 132103 94 pp £10 Actually starting to write this review has been the ultimate challenge. Starting [...]
Staying Human
Fragments and The Hill (from Scarlet Tiger, Templar 2016) have been reprinted in Staying Human, the fourth in Neil Astley’s Staying Alive series from Bloodaxe (published October 2020).
Scarlet Tiger reviewed by Claire Dyer in The High Window
Ruth Sharman’s Scarlet Tiger reviewed by Claire Dyer in The High Window Scarlet Tiger by Ruth Sharman. £10. Templar Poetry. ISBN: 9781911132103 Although there has been a twenty year pause between the publication of Ruth Sharman’s first collection, Birth of the Owl Butterflies (Picador, 1997) and Scarlet Tiger (Templar, 2016), what is striking is that [...]
Poetry Competitions
Commended and shortlisted in recent poetry competitions: Dharga Road commended in the Battered Moons Poetry Competition 2020 Talking of India shortlisted in the Second Light Poetry Competition 2020 City of Nectar commended in the Wells International Poetry Competition 2020
Recent magazine publications
Five poems from Ruth's forthcoming India collection were published in The High Window, Issue 15. Tannery Bungalow was published in Artemis, Issue 22, and more poems from the India collection will be appearing this summer in Sarasvati, the quarterly magazine published by Indigo Dreams. https://thehighwindowpress.com/2019/09/05/the-high-window-issue-15-autumn-2019/
Grey Hen Press 10th Anniversary Reading, Saturday 16 September.
R V Bailey, Ann Drysdale, June Hall, Joy Howard, Ruth Sharman and Pat Simmons will showcase a selection from the Grey Hen anthologies ‘Nothing mimsy about these poems by older women. Fierce, funny, disturbing and fairly vicious. Lovely’. Michele Hanson 'Seriously good poetry…the fruit of long-life experience – brave writing, full of love and subversive wit and [...]