REVIEWS
"Clever, witty, warm words – that make you think you can smell damp leaves and feel the sun on your back. Fresh, tangy life-filled poems that taste like bottled Dorset cider."
Nick Fisher
"Pig Nuts and Peacocks is a collection of quiet beauty. In this hymn to nature and to life, Anthea Simmons introduces us to her rural home, and the creatures she shares it with. Through the warmest of words, and the author's own most delightful and delicate line-drawings, we meet herons and hens, bracken and bramble, an apricot fox… This jewel of a book is both a celebration of the countryside and a finely-crafted exploration of the emotions engendered when we align our hearts to nature."
Malachy Doyle
"You can tell that, apart from being a consummate poet, Anthea Simmons is also a very talented artist. Her poetic command of the English language is a celebration of language itself, but also a celebration of the beautiful corner of Dorset which she inhabits. Her poetry paints pictures like no other poetry I have read since the 19th century Romantics, yet it is completely contemporary. If you love poetry and you love the countryside, this is a rare treat."
Lucy Daniel Raby
"Beautifully written, Pig Nuts and Peacocks is an intellectual response to the natural world surrounding the poet. Living on the edge of an East Devon woodland she finds herself in the company of several Bantams, a peacock, cats and a fox, all of whom she observes with a keen eye, a keen heart and a delicate sense of the passage of life."
Fergus Byrne, Marshwood Vale Magazine (No. 143, February 2011)
