BOOKS

Shooting the Breeze

This book is the result of a collaboration with photographer Len Grant. It contains poems and portraits of people Linda and Len met while taking their portable studio to several parts of Manchester. The photographs and poems sit opposite one another, each enhancing the other.

Blurb.com, 2010, 90 pp., £12.95

Available from www.blurb.com

Extended Family

In the first section, poems celebrate close family relationships as well as those of the extended family, students, teachers and friends. The second section is one love story in a long sequence.

Carcanet Press, 2006, 104 pp., £9.95

Available from Carcanet Press

The Wedding Spy

Here are poems about Chase's favourite themes-- childhood, America and relationships as well as poems inspired by Tai Chi. This is the book which most focuses on the unsettled legacy of the expatriate.

Carcanet Press 2001, 82 pp., £6.95

Available from Carcanet Press

These Goodbyes

Short witty poems are interspersed with the more formal patterns of sonnets and villanelles. The themes cover family, America and of course, relationships. The poems are bold but also sensitive and moving

Fatchance Press 1995, 75 pp., £4.99

Available from the author (pdf orderform)