A Flock of Blackbirds is a selection of short stories and novellas written by Susan Noble, who died in 1974 at the age of 31. Susan's output of fiction and poetry in the final ten years of her life was prolific and to mark the fortieth anniversary of her death, the stories in this volume are being published in hardback, paperback and Kindle for the first time, along with four volumes of her poetry, "The Dream of Stairs: A Poem Cycle"; "Inside the Stretch of My Heart"; "Before and After the Darkness"; and "Collected Poems," as well as her novel, "Drifting Between Empty Tramlines."

Many of...

The Dream of Stairs: A Poem Cycle was privately printed as a posthumous memorial volume in 1975, a year after Susan Noble's untimely death in 1974 at the age of 31.

Having announced with typically light-hearted self-depreciation, 'The muse has struck me ', Susan wrote the poems in batches of half a dozen or more, from 1965 onwards, in what she described as manic bursts of creativity. But these poems are anything but light-hearted, and even a first reading will reveal clearly that levity is not on the menu in a universe 'Where there are no jokes / And people do not pretend.'

Susan's...

Inside the Stretch of My Heart: From Morning to Night is a companion poetry collection to "The Dream of Stairs: A Poem Cycle," which was privately printed as a posthumous memorial volume in 1975, a year after Susan Noble's untimely death in 1974 at the age of 31.

Susan wrote the poems in batches of half a dozen or more, from 1965 onwards, in what she described as manic bursts of creativity, announcing with her typically light-hearted ironic self-depreciation, 'The muse has struck me ' But these poems are anything but light-hearted, and even a first reading will reveal clearly that levity...

Drifting Between Empty Tramlines is a novel about quietly - and not so quietly - deperate - women.

A moral and social satire in the tradition of Jane Austen, it focuses on the lives of a group of twenty-something women in the fictional town of Bridchester near Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire in the 1970s. It was written in 1972 by Susan Noble, who died in 1974 at the age of 31.

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Susan worked in London, first at the Royal National Institute for the Blind and later at the National Central Library. Like the Bridchester Records Office in the novel,...

Collected Poems by Susan Noble incorporates three collections of poems: "The Dream of Stairs: A Poem Cycle"; "Inside the Stretch of My Heart"; and "Before and After the Darkness." To mark the fortieth anniversary of her death, this comprehensive volume is being published in hardback, paperback and Kindle, making all her poems publicly available for the first time.

"The Dream of Stairs" was privately printed as a posthumous memorial volume in 1975, a year after Susan's untimely death in 1974 at the age of 31. Having announced with typically light-hearted self-depreciation that 'The muse has...

Before and After the Darkness is the companion volume to the collections "Inside the Stretch of the Heart" and "The Dream of Stairs: A Poem Cycle." The last of these was privately printed as a posthumous memorial volume in 1975, a year after Susan Noble's untimely death in 1974 at the age of 31.

Susan wrote the poems in batches of half a dozen or more, from 1965 onwards, in what she described as manic bursts of creativity, announcing with her typically light-hearted ironic self-depreciation, 'The muse has struck me ' But these poems are anything but light-hearted, and even a first reading...