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A compilation of places and pottery. Relationships and art. Culture and civilisation. In this written and visual collection, award-winning poet Ailsa Holland weaves a narrative of two cities with two structures: one of literature and one of ceramics. Discover the connection between Oxford's Bodleian Library and Stoke-on-Trent's bottle ovens. Visit reading rooms where a love story blossoms. Hear of women who wish to fill themselves with books. Smell the smoke that created the pots, plates and figures within these poems made of clay. For poetry and pottery lovers alike, Holland shares the environments that shaped her and the art she holds dear.

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'What a thing of beauty this collection is. Traversing time and landscape, Ailsa Holland throws words like clay, to be cast in the heart and mind, to be treasured.' - Abi Morgan 'This collection is full of love for the places that made Ailsa Holland the woman she is, and acknowledgement of the forces that constrain and free us all.' - Jo Bell 'Ailsa Holland's The Bodleian and the Bottle Ovens is as methodologically daring as it is charming, personal, witty and incisive. We can smell the burning here and it is a city, and a jug.' - Steven J Fowler

'What a thing of beauty this collection is. Traversing time and landscape, Ailsa Holland throws words like clay, to be cast in the heart and mind, to be treasured.' - Abi Morgan 'This collection is full of love for the places that made Ailsa Holland the woman she is, and acknowledgement of the forces that constrain and free us all.' - Jo Bell 'Ailsa Holland's The Bodleian and the Bottle Ovens is as methodologically daring as it is charming, personal, witty and incisive. We can smell the burning here and it is a city, and a jug.' - Steven J Fowler

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Award-winning poet Ailsa Holland published her first pamphlet, Twenty-Four Miles Up, in 2017 with support from Arts Council England. Ailsa's poems have appeared in anthologies including The Tree Line (2017) and MAP: Poems After William Smith's Geological Map of 1815 (2015) and journals such as The Rialto, Under the Radar, Bare Fiction and 3: AM. Ailsa was Artist-in-Residence for Macclesfield's Barnaby Festival in 2016; she has collaborated with artists' Studio Twentyseven on several exhibitions including How Did It Get So Dark? (2018-19). Ailsa is co-creator of the feminist history Twitter project @OnThisDayShe and co-author of On This Day She: Putting Women Back Into History, One Day At A Time (2021). She is Director of Moormaid Press.

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