Julie Burke worked as an au pair, toy maker, library assistant, biscuit inspector, sandwich vendor and balloon-shopkeeper in various places before at last returning to her native Nottingham. Her poems have appeared in many magazines, as well as in anthologies, exhibitions, websites, a podcast – even on a building. The poems in her pamphlet, Kindling, flicker with the people, places and all those little things that spark stories from the embers of unreliable memory.

This pamphlet is part of the series Five Leaves New Poetry, which publishes first pamphlets by regional writers, creating a community around publishing and performing.