Toupie by Kathleen Bleakley - ISBN: 9780987535542
Paperback
Colourful, moving, changing: three decades of poetry in vivid, spinning motion.

Toupie

New, selected & revised poems and micro stories

  • Paperback

    120 pages

  • Release Date

    1 December 2025

Summary

Toupie, a French word meaning spinning toy/top, signifies the collection’s themes: colour, movement and change. Toupie is Kathleen Bleakley’s seventh collection and is a showcase of movement and change in Bleakley’s writing over three decades.

‘Kathleen Bleakley expresses poignant and vivid feelings for a number of family members and friends in Toupie but the omphalos in this collection is her life with, and deep love for ‘pling, her long-term partner, and p…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780987535542
ISBN-10:0987535544
Author:Kathleen Bleakley
Publisher:Spineless Wonders
Imprint:Spineless Wonders
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:120
Release Date:1 December 2025
Dimensions:203mm x 133mm
About The Author

Kathleen Bleakley

Kathleen Miriam Bleakley (kmb) was born in Morocco; and has lived and travelled in diverse places - OS and Oz. kmb writes poetry, and prose including micro stories and ‘factions’. kmb’s ekphrastic writing (responding to other art forms) and artistic collaborations reflect her creative arts background. Toupie is her seventh collection.

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