This recent collection from Pennine Pens shows Simon delving into the mysteries of mid-life and coming up with some surprisingly amusing and definitely ‘green’ ways of ‘saving your life’.

As ever, though, watch out for the tongue in cheek and moving elegies and love poems.

Technically more assured than his previous work, this will be a joy ‘for all those in need of a tonic’.

“These are quality poems, beautifully presented by Pennine Pens” raw edge magazine

"Nanny Knows Best!" is a light-hearted comedy set in the early years of Thatcher's Britain. It charts the lives and loves of six students as they enter the 'real world'.

So what do you do in a society increasingly materialistic and polarised between the 'have-nots' and the 'don't-give-a-damns'? Those characters who try to do something socially worthwhile are soon defeated or despondent. Those less morally scrupulous characters find themselves having a great time. Does this seem familiar? More info on downloading or obtaining the CD

A collection of poems bridging the cultures of Britain and the Indian sub-continent.

"From a ghazal about a firefly to a bizarre ode to Sigmund Freud via a poem connecting the Pennines and the Himalayas, this book travels far and wide and deep into places and people."
Chris Meade,
Director of the Poetry Society

These "emails" speak in a variety of voices and forms about the marginalised in society. Simon goes some way to justifying poetry’s claim to speak, "truth to power". There are also poems of friendship, love and delightful jeux d’espirit.

In Email From The Provinces the poet Simon Fletcher combines great technical virtuosity and remarkable control with tenderness and emotional understanding. His characters are as disparate as Clytemnestra, a Franciscan monk, or, as in the memorable and witty “You’ll go mad if you read too many books” Grandma Fletcher, a connoisseur of Mills & Boone.

(pamphlet illustrated by Ian Emberson) 1997 Angria Press £2.95

"Reflects with wry honesty the unsentimental life of the smallholding he grew up on." Ken Edward Smith in Pennine Platform

the occasions of love are few,
and should not be strained or studied;
rather they should be taken gently
and treasured, not mourned for.

This is the powerful theme of Simon Fletcher's first collection of poems and Ted Hughes has written of it: "I enjoyed the deft fluency, the economy, the pure tone, the pang - (as Frost, said no pang, no poem)"