Sheila Jacob
Sheila Jacob lives in N.E.Wales with her husband. She has lived in Wales for fifty years but was born and raised in Birmingham and finds her Brummie heritage a rich source of inspiration. Her poems have appeared in various magazines and e-zines including The High Window, Atrium, Black Nore Review, and her debut pamphlet with Yaffle Press, Spotlit Under Street Lamps, has recently been published.
Spotlit Under Street Lamps
‘Your mum’s dabbing her eyes. Mum who never weeps turns a working holiday into the year’s highlight. You’re nineteen tomorrow and suddenly, bab, you’re afraid’ (Closing verse of ‘Somerset summers’ set in September 1939)