PRE-ORDERS ARE OPEN: “Light is a prayer” – Helen Openshaw

Well, I have to say that I am amazingly well entrenched in the chuffed department, to be able to announce that for Helen Openshaw’s quite gorgeous collection, Light is a prayer – PRE-ORDERS ARE OPEN!!

With words as stunning as the cover (and that, I’m sure, if I had seen it at Glastonbury in the ’80s would have meant that I never left)  this is a proper treat. Quite literally, every home should have one. So get one for yourself, your family and neighbours and even the sour faced chap down the road who could really do with some light in his soul.

Signed copies are available direct from Helen on Twitter (X?) HERE

So don’t delay, snap one up today.

I thank thee.


Light is a prayer is the debut collection from poet Helen Openshaw

“Reading this sequence of poems is a journey through different forms of light. We accompany the writer as she searches for and notices spiritual essence whether based in the seasons, a location, building or a relationship. The gentle, warm tone to these well-crafted poems make reading them a great experience, a journey you will want to keep repeating.”

Ann Grant

Signed copies are available direct from Helen on Twitter @pocket_rhyme


About Helen Openshaw

Helen Openshaw is a Drama and English teacher from Cumbria, and loves to inspire her students to write. Helen also helps run a local writing group in Penrith. Poems in Green Ink Poetry, Black Bough, Eat the Storms, Dust Poetry and Acropolis Magazine. Her first chapbook, ‘A Revolution in the Sky’ is published by Alien Buddha Press.

She can be found on Twitter @pocket_rhyme


Product details

  • Paperback : 20 pages
  • ISBN-13 : 978-1-916830-23-3
  • Product dimensions : 14.81 x 0.43 x 21.01 cm
  • Official Release Date: 27th July 2024

Signed copies are available direct from Helen on Twitter @pocket_rhyme