Still Breathing by Cathy Grindrod

She would dig him up if they would only let her.
With her bare hands scoop soil, claw.
If it took her a lifetime she would reach him.
Find him, find him.
Silence the voice.

This is the woman who will prove what is real, what is true.

In Still Breathing, Cathy Grindrod explores her relationship with her father through his illness and death; the many voices of grief; and the ultimate human will to survive.

Cathy Grindrod is Poet Laureate for Derbyshire, part-time Literature Officer for Nottingham City and a freelance literature worker and poetry course tutor.

Her first full collection, Fighting Talk, was published by Headland. Cathy's work also appears in Poetry: the Nottingham Collection published by Five Leaves.

Reviews of Still Breathing

	07 January 2008
Publication: Stride Magazine
These two collections taken together (Same Country, Liz Cashdan & Still Breathing, Cathy Grindrod) make plain that Five Leaves know what they are about. Though a small concern they are clearly providing poetry pamphlets that contain well edited quality poetry. If one believes there is a pecking order between the pamphlet and the full collection then this is a small press that proves without doubt that there shouldn't be.

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