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Carole Bromley - Team Cupcake

Edited by JODY PORTER

Team Cupcake
Carole Bromley

Not the cocaine but
the extravagance of flowers
for those five vases

the way he ordered
sweaters in every colour
of finest cashmere

not giving a thought
to where the money had gone
until she went too.


Carole Bromley is married with four children and lives in York. Twice a winner in the Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet Competition, she has two pamphlets with Smith/Doorstop (Unscheduled Halt, 2005 and Skylight, 2009). She has won a number of prizes, including the Bridport, and her poems have appeared in a range of magazines and anthologies. Carole is a graduate of the MPhil in Writing at Glamorgan University and currently teaches Creative Writing for York University’s Centre for Lifelong Learning. Her first full-length collection, A Guided Tour of the Ice House, was published in 2011.

Her website: www.carolebromleypoetry.co.uk

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