poet : writer : blogger
Simone Mansell Broome
Hello and welcome to my newly updated website.
Now that you’re here, what can you do?
You can find out about the recent books I’ve written which are out there, in various physical and online places, in print. There may be a few reviews to read. You can find out a bit about me, but not too much. You can read, listen to and watch me perform some of my writing. You can buy my recent books direct from this website, as there is, of course, a shop. You can see if I’m popping up anywhere to do anything soon. And if you’d like to get in touch with me about a reading, a talk, a commission, a gig, an interview, anything legal really, then there’ll be contact details too.
Thank you/Diolch yn fawr!
Where you can hear or meet me
Coming Soon – Daniel the Spaniel
The next children's story in 2026 with illustrations by Cerys Susannah Rees. Features Daniel a loveable young Spaniel.
Simone is guest poet at Ponty Poetry – Wed June 10th 7-9pm
This event is at the Cwtch Café at YMA community Arts Centre Pontypridd CF37 4TS.
Private Event – Scanda Vale Hospice Sat 18 April
This event will be a reading to patients, staff and families of my work.
My Books
Bracing – £7.5 – full collection of poems
A new full collection of poems in three sections Breeze, Blast, and It’s an ill wind. Published by Conrad Press. Also available through this website.
Falafels some frogs and a ferret-£7.5 –
“A memoir full of interesting, illuminating stories of family life, swinging from laughter to sadness, pathos to pleasure. There is a richness and depth to how everyday occurrences are told, with a sympathetic wry eye for the nuances of human relationships.
A cwtch in Kyrenia – £6.5
Simone’s new slim volume of observational, narrative poems, based on a lost-and-found notebook, a journal of a trip to Kyrenia, re-discovered late in 2022.
Pause -12 months of going nowhere – £6.5
Adapted from the blog, locklites.co.uk, written in 2020 and 2021, about life on a smallholding and wedding business in rural West Wales.
Valletta and the Year of Changes – £7.5
Gentle adventures pf a fiery, busy little mouse who squeaks her mind. Sensitively exploring the events of the last few years but with larger messages around family support, community and finding hope.
Fixing Ferdy – a froggy tale – £6.5
Simone’s latest children’s story is out now. Something is wrong with Ferdy and, somehow the other frogs must work together to sort him out. A wise and funny story beautifully illustrated by Cerys Susannah Rees.
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Cardiff Bay Lunch – currently out of print
Full length collection of Poems
“these are lived-in, unblinkered poems of great insight, range and skill… there’s real energy here matched by a dark laugh-out loud humour and above all – they’re readable”
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A Christmouse Tale – £6.5
It’s just before Christmouse when Oslo finds a book of fairy tales. Now the grown up mice need to decide what to do with it.
..she observes life around her, and approaches subjects from an oblique angle to show us things we haven’t seen. She is concerned about how we live now, in the ‘justfornowplace’, and the people from her past and present who are her landscape
Past Events
‘Attic Aid’ – fundraiser for the children of Gaza – Feb 20 7:30
‘Simone will be performing at Attic Aid Friday February 20th -7.30pm at Attic Theatre Newcastle Emlyn Attic Aid’ is a fundraiser for the children of Gaza. Our choice of aid agency is ‘War Child’ with its experience in advocating for minors in peril.Attic presents an...
Community Production of The Vagina Monologues – 19:30 Sun 21 March at Ceridwen
This event will be a powerful, inclusive evening of storytelling, performance, and connection. Created from real interviews that V (formerly Eve Ensler) undertook with women and people with vaginas, the piece explores themes of identity, pleasure, trauma, resilience,...
Poetry and Prose at Goldstone bookshop, Carmarthen 7pm 14 March
Simone will be reading poetry and prose at Goldstone Bookshop from 7pm on Thursday 14th March. There’ll be an opportunity for Q and A afterwards. All welcome!
Art and Poetry show at Mulberry Bush, Lampeter
Currently on display in Mulberry Bush Cafe is a unique Art and Poetry show highlighting pollution issues in our beautiful Teifi river. Art on Troubled Waters will be on display until 16/2/2024 with a Poetry afternoon on 10/2/24 @ 2pm. The show includes the works of...
Bracing book launch at Mulberry Bush, Lampeter
On Sat March 2nd from 2pm. Readings from ‘Bracing’, her newest poetry collection & from her 2023 memoir ‘Falafels, some frogs and a ferret’ ‘I highly recommend this poet’s sense, sensibility, and hearty companionship.’Pamela Petro‘….their truths are universal,...
Gwyl Lyfrau Aberaeron Book Festival
I am at the book fair from 10-5pm on Sat 21st October at the Memorial Hall, South Road, SA46 0DP and doing a reading on stage at 4:15
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