Platinum Blonde by Phoebe Stuckes Deborah Landau ‘Nocturnes at Nohant: The decade

‘Nocturnes at Nohant: The decade of Chopin and Sand is an original extremely intelligent working through of a complex relationship between two artists and their work

'In both technical mastery and his belief in the seriousness of the poetic art

the noises are drops like kisses falling

of a worm who thinks he is a caterpillar and the Baba Yaga who became a witch

refined by the disciplines of translation and co-translation

Platinum Blonde by Phoebe Stuckes Deborah Landau ‘Nocturnes at Nohant: The decadePublished 3rd September. Available for pre order. Platinum Blonde is Phoebe Stuckes debut collection. Whether wildly or wryly funny, each poem presents an episode in the up and down life of the wise cracking party girl. On the surface, this is a world of dancefloors and bathrooms, glitter and girls, love and disappointment, but beneath the laughter and antics these are self questioning poems. Poems about self belief, self image, vulnerability and