A Dress With Deep Pockets

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Winner of the 2024 International Book & Pamphlet Competition judged by Jane Clarke

A lightness of touch combined with wit and insight distinguishes A Dress with Deep Pockets. The collection addresses themes of loss and change through memories of people and place and above all friendship. Here are poems that celebrate, offer solace and resonate far beyond the page. – Jane Clarke

A Dress with Deep Pockets is scrupulously attentive to matters of love and longing.
Vividly written and tender-hearted, this is a moving collection of poems which foregrounds kindness above everything. Highly recommended. – Vanessa Lampert

I so enjoyed the verve, colour and confidence of these poems. These are accomplished poems of womanhood, motherhood and friendships from a poet who doesn’t forget the reader; hugely enjoyable. – Deborah Alma

Published March 2025

What Writers and Critics Think

  • Jen Feroze's A Dress with Deep Pockets is genuinely delightful, tasty even, in its twists and turns between wistfulness and joy. A cracking present for the literary buff or the most casual of readers...

    Matthew M C Smith, Black Bough Poetry
  • A Dress with Deep Pockets is a tender exploration of womanhood, motherhood and friendships har unfold in vivid fragments. In portraits of people and places, Feroze balances domestic worlds with natural spheres to create attentive and particular poems. Her poetry deals with memories of all kinds, the quiet and sonorous material of life. Navigating love, loss and longing, A Dress with Deep Pocket captures moments in time and holds them up to the light.

    Rose Schierig, Poetry Book Society Bulletin

Description

Jen Feroze lives by the sea in Essex. A former Foyle Young Poet, her work has appeared in publications including Poetry Wales, Under The Radar, Magma, The Interpreter’s House, And Other Poems, Berlin Lit and Butcher’s Dog. She placed second in the 2022/2023 Magma Editors’ Prize and was highly commended in the 2021 Spelt competition. Jen has edited anthologies for Black Bough Poetry and The Mum Poem Press, and her debut pamphlet Tiny Bright Thorns was published by Nine Pens in 2024.

Additional information

Weight 0.087 kg
Dimensions 21 × 0.5 × 14.8 cm
Publication Year

March 2025

ISBN

978-1-914914-93-5, 978-1-914914-94-2

Pages

36

Format

eBook (ePub), Pamphlet